Cerdd – 'Pandemic 2020, Coronavirus 19 reminiscent'

'Pandemic 2020, Coronavirus 19 reminiscent'

Gan Barbara Candlish

Reflecting on my Covid-19 days
To be honest it all seems a bit of a daze
You can't do this, you can't do that
You can't go here and you can't go there
And if you do a mask you must wear
Don't forget keep 2 meters distance and wash your hands

There are three choices you can decide
That will be your transformation on the other side
Keep healthy keep fit look after your physique
Look after your mental health don't take to the drink!
Don't eat too much that's a danger to avoid
Now you know the prediction, that may come your way
a hunk, a chunk or a drunk, that's for you to decide.

March 18 2020 just as lockdown began.
I was pleased, a rest, from demands on my time
I'll do this, I'll do that, I'll write, I'll read, I'll play, I'll paint
But for two weeks I felt weak I felt tired
didn't have the energy these activities required.
Lost my taste lost couldn't smell,
Lots of junk food I did consume
Then the warning came
Do you want to be a Chunk!

Thank goodness my energy did return
With gusto I attacked all those activities awaiting my touch
Painting a child's vintage high chair, covering and painting two garden chairs
Painting the shed a lovely shade of blue
There's nothing now I couldn't do

The virus had taken a hold of the world.
A tiny spiked greasy ball was to blame
Lashings of soap and bleach was the only defence
Supermarket shelves were empty and bare
Not a single toilet roll in sight
You'll be rationed to two pieces in the lav tonight

So many people sick and dying over the land
So many medics overwhelmed with a struggle, so hard to bear
We clapped and praised them on a Thursday night
To show we cared

Just when everything seemed to be settling
That was July, I think
We could all take a deep breath
And some tentative forward steps.

September came and it looked like, we think
A second wave is about to hit
They blame this they blame that
Overseas travel, kids back to school
Students at Uni, they like to party.
The real culprit of this, we all must know

Is that tiny spiked greasy ball.

Ynglŷn â'r gerdd hon

Yn ‘Pandemic 2020’, mae Barbara yn rhoi disgrifiad doniol yn aml o'i phrofiadau o COVID-19. Mae ei disgrifiadau o'r cyfyngiadau a osodwyd ar bobl Blaenau Gwent yn sicr yn bethau y dylai pob un ohonom eu hystyried wrth ateb heriau annisgwyl bywyd. Mae myfyrdodau gonest Barbara yn taro tant gyda phob un ohonom – mae effeithiau gorfwyta bwyd sothach yn gyfarwydd iawn! Ond llwyddodd i wella'n gyflym o'r feirws, a daw cryfder ei phersonoliaeth yn amlwg wrth iddi ailafael yn frwd mewn bywyd a'r byd.

Mae'r gerdd yn llifo'n hawdd, gyda chyfuniad clyfar o rythmau mewnol a diwedd llinell. Mae'r llinellau

‘Not a single toilet roll in sight
You'll be rationed to two pieces in the lav tonight’

yn enghraifft drawiadol o hyn, ac yn atgof difrifol ond digrif o ddyddiau cynnar y pandemig.

Mae'n gerdd am obaith a chryfder sy'n dangos personoliaeth a brwdfrydedd Barbara ei hun, yn ogystal â'r gymuned ehangach.

Mae'r dudalen hon yn rhan o arddangosfa ar-lein Blaenau Gwent REACH.

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