And People Stayed Home..

Cheeniya · Mar 23, 2020

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.

Anusha2917 · Mar 23, 2020

So apt in 2020!

Amulet · Mar 23, 2020

Ah..ha... someone else was claiming that it is the first time....perhaps they were talking about Television's help.

kkrish · Mar 23, 2020

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

Amulet · Mar 24, 2020

Stay Home and Save a Life ..... says Dr. John Campbell.

Thyagarajan · Mar 24, 2020

Cheeniya said: ↑

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.
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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.