It’s Poet’s Choice for this week’s challenge at Colleen Chesebro’s Word Craft Poetry ‘Tanka Tuesday Challenge’. I’ve written a Haibun with a Senyru.
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge, #Poet’sChoice
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you!
Numbing the Numbers
Fifty, one hundred and fifty, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand – give or take, and tens of thousands more.
Easy to discard emotions when we speak in numbers and not in humans.
When numbers grow exponentially we tend to lose perspective, and shock value of the severity of escalating numbers.
How long does it take to count to 100,000? Not just random numbers, each digit representing a human life.
Just how many ‘ones’ would it take to count into the hundred thousands?
If we were to know every one of the thousands who’ve perished because of a pandemic, our hearts couldn’t survive the grief. So, it’s easier to speak in numbers than to imagine thousands of ghostly faces.
But it’s not.
Don’t become immune to numbers.
Keep your face covered
Have respect for fellow man
Stay safely distanced.
©DGKaye2020
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