Student Poetry: Isolation Haikus

Student Poetry: Isolation Haikus

A student asked eight friends to send her daily Haikus while in isolation. This spreadsheet includes semi-daily haikus from March 19th to March 29th talking about the transition to home and self-isolation

Friends of Daniela Carney, '22

March 29th, 2020

Semi-daily haikus from eight friends:
Friend "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H"
19-03-2020
Quarantine is sad
All I want to do is to
Enjoy the outdoors

All i do is play
League of legends please send help
This isnt a haiku

I counted faces.
Three old folks out the window.
And [brother]. That’s four.

Someone once told me
You’re the mean of your close friends
If so, I’m happy

20-03-2020
A haiku a day
keeps the quarantine at bay.
Oh—what to portray?

Day five at my house
On my second to last grape
Uncrustable, sad

Medium rare steak?
After bland tuna patties––
"A', teach me your ways

Eight wonderful friends
And five different time zones
Social yet distant

Can't do any work, but,
I can scroll the gram and lurk.
Friday already?

Zoom, messenger, Skype
These options are so stressful
But please no Snapchat

21-03-2020
It doesn’t feel like
a crisis, outside is still
the same as usual

Another long day:
I take an afternoon nap
and think of my friends.

I am so tired
I am tired all the time
I’m going to sleep again

What to do today?
Maybe drink red or white wine
So many options

Oh such boredom
If only I could do stuff
I hate this virus

22-03-2020

I forgot to make
A haiku yesterday, oops
Sorry "my friend C"

Who knew of the joy
A long stroll on the boardwalk
Would bring me today

A week since Loui’s
When I said goodbye to friends
Whom I love and miss

Time to eat breakfast
Self-regulating markets
Mean that there’s still food

Family Zoom call
Was cacophonous mayhem
Much ambient noise

23-03-2020
Sitting at home, I
Lose my creativity
I need it again

Six hours of calls—
I missed your laughs, voices, rants
But now my jaw hurts

Many emotions
I don’t know how to process.
Too much time to think

Today I will sleep,
Get work done, and maybe we
Could video call later today

Let’s go for a walk
What is there to see today?
Streets are deserted

Hatred in the world,
No, let's think of something else.
Oh look, it's snowing.

Slept through my alarm
The stakes are not very high
Still productive though

24-03-2020
when will "G" conquer
his jet lag? espresso will
not solve the problem

Time now stands still; the
setting dust my reminder
of a week gone by.

Virtual cooking:
Banana bread, chocolate,
Stew, and then there’s "G"

I’m used to this now
I’m fine, everything must be fine
Oh wait. There’s the news.

25-03-2020

So ive found
Out i really like ramen
This is my third day

Breakfast in silence.
I slow my pace to match the
traffic's muted hum.

I feel stressed and pressed
World affairs swirl around me
Maybe I should pray

There’s some hope out there
Beautiful humans out there
To help each other

"B" loves ramen but
MSG and sodium
With virus, so what?

26-03-2020

Restrictions tightened––
No more runs on the boardwalk
For the public good.

27-03-2020

I think my dad’s bored
He didn’t light the candle
but the wood instead...

28-03-2020

Daylight savings time
Starts in [my country], too. Why!?
I lost an hour

29-03-2020

Quarantine extends
So far into the future
I’m thinking of y’all

Poems, in Spreadsheet