Wednesday, April 8, 2020

A Room of My Own: Pandas Mating Tanka

Twenty-Second Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
written on the 100th day of the first Covid19 case reported to the WHO

after ten years of trying...
the distance
between my wife and me
shrinks to the space between laptops


Added: Twenty-Third Entry, on Wuhan, China’s coronavirus epicentre, ending 76-day lockdown

A "Good Old "Day

touch of sunshine
a mother and her kids stroll
down a Wuhan street

Tsingtao beer gone flat
rainbow flowers blooming

Note: "Tsingtao Brewery Co. Ltd. is China's second largest brewery, with about 15% of domestic market share. It was founded in 1903 by German settlers in Qingdao, Shandong province... The Tsingtao brand is sold in 62 countries and regions around the world, and accounts for more than 50% of China's beer exports." 

1 comment:

  1. Global News: "Giant pandas mate under coronavirus lockdown, ending 10-year dry spell:"

    A pair of giant pandas had sex for the first time in a decade on Monday, stunning zookeepers who were watching over them during a coronavirus lockdown at a theme park in Hong Kong.

    Ying Ying and Le Le have essentially been roommates at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park for 13 years, as all efforts to get them to breed have failed. The endangered animals also have a notoriously weak libido, which gives them a window of only a few days each year to do the deed.

    All that sexual tension must have boiled over during the park’s coronavirus lockdown on Monday, when Le Le finally put the moves on Ying Ying without any encouragement....

    Read its full text here, https://globalnews.ca/news/6787877/giant-pandas-mating-coronavirus/

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