To The Roaring 20’s

I am looking forward to the roaring 20’s
unmasked parties
hugging friends beyond
my love and my children
picnics on the beach
eating inside a restaurant

Roaring 20’s followed the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic poetry with Kimberly Burnham

I am looking forward to the roaring 20’s
economic prosperity
distinctive cultural of the 1920’s
after the Spanish flu of 1918
more than two percent of the world
50 million died out of a world of 1.8 billion

Car from the 1920’s poetry with Kimberly Burnham

I am looking forward to the roaring 20’s
to mourn the three million
celebrate with the 7.6 billion of us who have survived
into 2021 then on to
2022 and 3 and beyond

Sports car poetry with Kimberly Burnham Photo by Tim Meyer | @timm.jpeg on Unsplash

I am looking forward to the roaring 2020’s
and hope we learned enough
in the last hundred years
to let everyone roar and celebrate
avoid the crash of 1929
and the Great Depression

Roaring 20’s 1920–2020 poetry with Kimberly Burnham