The COVID Chronicles

Solitary confinement knocks at my door;                                           

 I open to no one, I see only air there.

I wait for the invisible scare to disappear,

so all can be as before.                                                                                                                       

Will it? Or will pandemic become endemic,

changing our lives forever.                                                                               

Will we become more grateful, less hateful?

Or will we revert to a tether of hard leather. 

If virus can heal us,

even via death and loss,

We will come through softer, more pliable,

without dross.

In recent months, I have been doing some acrylic oil paintings. For many years, I've been a wriiter (fiction, poetry, plays, and screenplays). Some of my writings are available on Amazon and on my website. Although I've always been interested in painting, I only began taking art classes about five years ago. When this COVID crisis occurred, I began working from home, and my work hours were reduced during the summer. I decided to put this spare time to good use by doing a lot of painting. Art classes had provided me with enough confidence to attempt some projects on my own. Within this chronicle, I'm including photos of three of my new paintings. In the near future, I plan to do more paintings with space travel and ocean adventure themes (along with various other themes). The titles of the three paintings presented here are "Martian Odyssey," "Secrets of the Sea," and "Saint George and the Dragon." On my website JoeRogers.homestead.com, I have a story-poem "Saint George and Dragon." When I wrote it about three years ago, it never occurred to me that I would someday do a painting with the same theme! I hope that you like these paintings!