Tom Retchford, poet-in-residence at Falmouth Art Gallery, has been writing a collection of poems since mid-March that relate to the current events that we are experiencing because of coronavirus.
It is called Coronology, a play on words of 'chronology', as the poems are in order of the events that have been happening.
Tom explains: "This collection I have written is a way of helping people understand the impact that this disease has had on all of us.
"Because there is no doubt whatsoever this virus has affected every single person in the United Kingdom, amongst so many others around the globe.
"This is not centred to one person such as the reader, but to everyone and everything that is going on. I write for the art gallery and write poems every day about so much stuff.
"My dream is to be a published poet and to get this collection made into a book for people to keep and look back on, allowing them to remember, when we are all through this.
"What it was like not just for them, but for all of us.
"I hope you enjoy them and please leave any comments on the website.
"I hope that all of you continue to stay safe and well, with best wishes."
The latest poem in the series, entitled Too Many Lost, is below.
It's easy amongst all of us trying our very best
To slow and stop the spread of the virus from north to south, east to west
Putting all our true qualities and skills into test
Lock-downs and safe measures
Stopping work and shutting down schools and places of leisure
All precautions, we've our lives and others to treasure
But when we get through this, impossible as it seems at present
The effect it will have on all of us, the aftermath in ascertainment
Will be a long recovery process from this terrible event
Historical
Many lost
So many poor lives lost
And at this moment, the NHS are doing all they can
Trying to get as many staff members as possible, every available woman and man
And now more than ever, they are immensely overran
Sticking together
Pulling together
Helping each other
All those poor people who have lost their lives
Mothers, fathers to husbands and wives
The list is too long to study and revise
We are up in arms with the new rules and restrictions
Adapting our whole lives to this exceptional situation
With even the prime minister, having to make very regretful decisions
But it's all for them, all for them we must understand
No more lives should be lost, we can't let this illness have the upper hand
Spreading and infecting as well as killing so many across the whole of England
All the UK and the world
Into this pandemic has been hurled
Since this thing was unfurled
It doesn't matter about economics and business
Nor about work, money or politics
When so many lives have been lost and left grieved ones in distress
Gone
Forlorn
Solemn
When the rest of the country will be getting back on its feet
When eventually the Coronavirus does retreat
Business owners mourning over lost profits and sales with reciepts
People will be busy as well
Choosing the coffin, the ceremony
Sorting out wills and getting funerals ready
Funeral parlours and homes are busy
As if this isn't bad enough already
And when things do grow steady
Don't think of the loss of businesses and stuff like that I mean really?
Postponement of sporting events such as Olympics and Euro2020
When so many have been lost, those we love dearly
After-all, these things can happen and be done again
But for the victims of the virus, their lives weren't put in postponement like the Olympics, for them it was a permanent cancellation
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