Challenging Poetry

theme and variations

spring is broken, the robins freezing
in their nests while buds
shrink back into themselves,

parks empty of children.

there once was a virus from China
that broke us without even try-na.
and every news board
like a broken record
repeats itself time after time-ah

how can there be breaks
when no one labors?

the offices empty
and we break with inaction.
and we break.

line count: 14
April 14 prompt: "break" a sonnet somehow