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Relish the Quarantine
by Sam Love

 

Celebrate how the four walls

of a lockdown can’t imprison

your child’s imagination

 

Take time to explore their fantasies

of fairy tale adventures,

Lego inventions or

imaginary friends

 

Cherish these fleeting moments

as a child transforms

chairs and a blanket into a castle

safe from a hostile world

 

Once freed from spoon-fed television

a child’s world can escape

class, caste and privilege

so anyone can become a princess,

a president, or a rock star

 

Nurture these escapes

before the so-called real world

eats away at fantasy’s edge

and reduces them to trolls

imagining only day to day survival

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Sam Love lives in New Bern, NC. His poetry book, Cogitation, is available from Unsolicited Press. He published an award-winning illustrated children’s book My Little Plastic Bag. It is available in Spanish and English. His new collection of environmental poems Awakening: Musings on Planetary Survival is published by Fly on the Wall Press in Manchester, England. His poems have been published in numerous publications and ezines. More info: www.samlove.net.