Words While We Wait - Day 3
Words While We Wait from Lindsay, Ontario
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Poet: Joan Forsythe
Artist: Rob O’Hoski
I sit in my cozy warm kitchen
Fresh vegetable soup
simmers on the stove
My puppy is at my feet
playing with his half-chewed toys
We are safe far from the deadly pandemic
Imagine Being homeless
lying on a wretched putrid grate
Minus 10 today
Covid danger everywhere
Imagine Your anxiety through the roof
No therapists to actually see
Virtual sessions only
Virtual reality
Fighting to survive
Imagine being a refugee
Fleeing from unspeakable horrors
Crowded and cold
in an outdoor camp
No hope no homemade soup
steaming in a bowl
Imagine Sitting in fear
Trying to stay sober
Mind racing hold on hold on
Sobriety hanging by a thread
Letting go the fight is lost
Imagine Being isolated alone
No food in the fridge
Too afraid to venture out
No family to look after
her aged ailing body
Imagine The end of this dreadful plague
Vaccine renews our hope
Hurry it forward inject us soon
Imagine People out on a sunny day
The warm sunshine restoring hope
Restoring health and saddened spirits
Imagine Laughter
Sitting on a park bench
Smiling at people passing by
Imagine Hope
for the homeless the mentally ill the refugees
the lonely and the addicted
Imagine The possibility of joy
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About the poet, Joan Forsythe
Joan Forsythe has lived in the Kawartha’s for two years, moving from Toronto Ontario, where she was a professional Interior Designer.
A member of Kawartha Arts Network, Joan studied writing at Ryerson University and Haliburton School of the Arts and is co-moderator for the Circle of Writers’ group in Lindsay, Ontario.
IMAGINE
About the artist, Rob O’Hoski
Rob O’Hoski is an artist working in oil and pastel with a focus in portraiture and figure work.
Rob finds the human face to be an endless source of inspiration with the landscape of the body providing him with a wealth of limitless raw material for artistic expression.
