Acrostic Pandemic Poetry

Contrary to fear, let us relish our family time.              C
Ours to do what we always wanted:                              O
Rest, read, do whatever enters our mind.                       R
Only walk to wherever, our feet led.                              O
No one to impress, no one to care.                                 N
Alone.  We can't go anywhere!                                       O


Can I throw kisses                                                          C
Over fences and through doors,                                     O
Very heartfelt messages?                                                V
Isolated and alone. Catch them,                                      I
Destined to outlast this virus.                                         D

Acrostic

An acrostic is a form of poetic arrangement of lines where the first letters in each line have meaning when read vertically.  In this case, the text of the acrostic offers a riddle that matches the vertical meaning.

Albums at the beginning of the nineteenth century were popular.  They contained cut-up magazine clippings, poetry, pictures, etc.

Acrostic                                                     

by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

A thing of glitter, gleam, and gold,
Loose thoughts, loose verse, unmeaning, old,
Big words that sound a thousand fold;
Unfinished scraps, conceit and can't,
Mad stanzas, and a world of rant.