Senryu Sonnet

Now I have a new norm:

Sitting at my computer,

Waiting kids log on.

Zoom out; Teams now in.

Students bellow in protest:

When will life begin?

Change dominates life,

And inequity pervades,

Cutting like a knife.

Happiness is found,

As Rowling’s Dumbledore says,

Where darkness abounds!

So, dark thoughts, resist,

For we will persist!

Haiku Sonnet

Time seems motionless,

The ozone creates a shield,

And everything heals.

Poison is airborne:

As Mother Nature laments,

People flee her scorn.

Dew coats the landscape:

Humanity remains still,

Each day yields disgrace.

Birds chirp mercy songs;

Mankind atones for all wrongs:

How long are such storms?

Now, benevolence abounds:

The bell tolls; a death knell sounds