Put Out Your Poetry Gallery

Grandson born in lockdown
Mother sends me photos
My arms still empty

By Vicki Thornton

Essential workers
Pick me up Monday mornings
My family house bound

By Robyn

I exist
Memories and future plans
Encased, isolated, not alone

By Robyn 1

Footy was cancelled
Along with cricket and school
Let's fast forward time

By Mandy Rudeforth

A small house
A messy desk
A piece of paper being folded

By April Vautier

Sanctuary amongst suburbia
Afternoons
Around the water reserves

By Megan Da Costa

Looking at the screen
There they are smiling at us
Can't wait to hold you

By Dale

Three cats inside the house to play
We are all locked up and stuck inside all day
Send help

By Samantha Davenne

How can it be
We're all doing nothing
Yet still we make waste?

By Shelley McColl

Faceless passers-by
A bear littered path
Every day at midday

By Sarah

Strikingly beautiful, multicoloured skies
Brings to an end a glorious spring day
On my verandah, captivated, bathed in colour

By Sue Cook

Flowers, beautiful fragile
Spring opens
Autumn collapses

By Holly Smith