Caged cenobium
Rice and chopsticks
Fights and laughter
Silence echoes
louder than TV blasting
Humming memory
Sprouting beans
new hobby in a kettle
Wait in the dark
First harvest
grown in quarantine
free of price tags
Seek the sacred
Modern upper room
Daily journal
Shut up
Read death haikus
Tea brewing slowly
Searching for life
in old books while
sanitizing
Spring cleaning
Aching arms tone up
Lose the years
Short distance driving
New luxury after
four walls
Masks and gloves
Grocery shopping
is an adventure
………….
Angelina Bong is a poet and visual artist with a background in Fashion. She has read and performed in South Korea, Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, UK, Australia, India, Japan and Egypt with some poems translated into Korean, Malayalam, Japanese, Arabic, French and Malay. She is published online and in print including several poetry festival anthologies. Her most recent guest poet appearance was at the 51st Cairo International Book Fair 2020, Egypt in January 2020. She chirps on Twitter and Instagram at @swakgel.