Kathleen O'Meara's poem, 'And People Stayed Home,' written in 1869. And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new ways of being and stopped and listened deeper someone meditated someone prayed someone danced 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, even the earth began to heal and when the danger ended and people found each other grieved for the dead people and they made new choices and dreamed of new visions and created new ways of life and healed the earth completely just as they were healed themselves.
Ah..ha... someone else was claiming that it is the first time....perhaps they were talking about Television's help.
Very apt poem sir. However, there is confusion on who wrote this. Some say it is by Kitty O'Meara of Madison, Wisconsin. In the Time of Pandemic
Kudos to your selection that was written probably during Napoleon time While authoress remained in France. 2. most appropriate poetry to post in these days of pandemic . Poem bespeaks of all negatives and positives in the same breath and heralds old golden days are going to be back here. 3. I enjoyed reading it slowly and slowly to absorb. 4. I found in google US lady had written almost similar poem that had remained trending for a long time . BOTH VERSIONS I READ IN GOOGLE. BOTH HEALS THE EARTH. Thanks and Regards. GOD - you want mankind to begin from scratch.