Voice at the Window:

100 gratitude poems written during lockdown

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‘Thank you so much for bringing these beautiful words into this crazy world’

‘I’m thankful for your words each day’

‘absolutely beautiful’

‘I look forward to these every day’

Voice at the Window is a collection of 100 daily gratitude poems written during lockdown by myself, Elisabeth Pike. Whilst struggling with winter blues, I decided to stop scrolling and post one gratitude poem a day instead. ‘Even if no one read them, I thought it would do me good’. It was initially a project for lent, with the intention of writing 40 poems, but by that time, the UK was in full lockdown and coronavirus was sweeping the globe. The response to the poems was really positive, and so I kept going until I reached 100. ‘I think the poems resonated with people as we were all going through this strange, empty and anxious time, and we were going through it together, but sealed off in our own little boxes. My hope is that this collection of poems will speak to the heart and serve as a reminder to be thankful, even if things seem impossible at the moment. There is good in each day, we just have to remember to look for it.’ You can find the poems on my Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/elisabethpikewriter/

Voice at the Window was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign and is out now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elisabethpike/voice-at-the-window-100-poems-written-during-lockdown .

You can get the book here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleBirdEditions

Gratitude #19

I wake this morning

and hear the soft coo

of the wood pigeon

and hear the blackbirds sing.

The earth is warming up

and it feels that we should be

breathing a sigh of relief

now that we have made it through winter!

But instead, the virus of fear is spreading,