Poem -
Modern Millie
spanish flu..
1918
What are we to do..?
We keep ourselves true.
read, write letters.
stay at home to avoid
germs..
Not much different to now..
Those lovely ladies kept safe..
With style and flamboyantcy..
I wished I'd lived in the roaring twenties..
Those girls are my heroes
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I like the line you drew between the two times here....and I too am a FAN of the "Roaring Twenties".....I liked their whole attitude of "This Too Shall Pass" as they continued to Party on and too creatively find new happinesses and frontiers!!…...ALL STARS!!...well done dear poet sister!!…..thanx for taking me back!!……..LOVE & ROCKETS!!…...T xo : )
Theres a poem that goes with this...written in 1860 ish..Came across this poem written in 1869, reprinted during 1919 Pandemic.
It was written in 1869 by Kathleen O’Mara:
And people stayed at home
And read books
And listened
And they rested
And did exercises
And made art and played
And learned new ways of being
And stopped and listened
More deeply
Someone meditated, someone prayed
Someone met their shadow
And people began to think differently
And people healed.
And in the absence of people who
Lived in ignorant ways
Dangerous, meaningless and heartless,
The earth also began to heal
And when the danger ended and
People found themselves
They grieved for the dead
And made new choices
And dreamed of new visions
And created new ways of living
And completely healed the earth
Just as they were healed.
Reprinted during Spanish flu
Pandemic, 1919