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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR

Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020

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John Ling  

Manchester UK. 

 

Mediator, Facilitator of AVP workshops (Alternative to violence project)  Four books published, two of social stories for autistic children, one poetry, one short stories.   

 

Dated 5th May 2020

 

Give or take

 

It was a testing time.

Of how much and how little.

Of how much we could take

and how much we had taken.

How little we had given.

Of how much give and take

we could bear with.

Bear with us, they said.

It will take time.

How much? We said.

Too much, we felt.

This much, they said, perhaps.

Another said, that much, maybe.

And Earth said, not enough.

You’ve had your chance.

Now it’s my turn.