Snow's Writing for 2019, 2020, & Beyond

April 29: poem embedding a quoted phrase - New Normal

New Normal

We have been reborn!

"We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human." ~ 12

We are babies
pushed naked and squalling
into a bright
mew world.

We can't go back--
before the COVID-19 pandemic,
before the social distancing,
before the stay in place quarantines--
anymore than we can crawl
back into our mother's wombs.

We must move forward
into this new normal,
into this new reality,
while praying for the best.


Poet's Note: ▶︎

Line Count: 16
Form: Free verse
Prompt: poem embedding a quoted phrase (& cite it)
Written for "Dew Drop Inn" 

Footnotes
1  Charles Eisenstein
2  https://www.azquotes.com/author/19099-Charles_Eisenstein