Lift Your Bibliophile Heart During COVID with a RAP, Really Awful Poem, to Celebrate Book Lovers’ Day

Book nerd here. Freely admitting that books are my best friend, especially in a pandemic. Now more than ever, they help me cope and escape the headlines.

To celebrate Book Lovers’ Day on 9 August in Coronaville, I channeled covid-fueled frustration into a cringe-worthy new RAP – Really Awful Poem – telling how books have been my lifeline in 2020. Have a read, maybe a giggle or two, but only if you dare. It's really awful!

Hey, please be sure to scroll to the end for more bookish fun:

* Watch the RAP from this post as I step waaaay out of my comfort zone in my first narrated YouTube video. 
* Find more love book from California to New Zealand and everywhere in between with my awesome #Gr8Blog pals as they celebrate Book Lovers' Day, too.
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Photo: Chaithanya Krishnan on Flickr

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A Bibliophile's RAP (Really Awful Poem)
to Celebrate Book Lovers' Day
Covid 2020 Edition

by Cat Michaels
with deepest apologies to true poets everywhere

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Covid’s got my head in a spin.
Makes me feel our world cannot win.
 
Everywhere I look –
Fright, anger and despair.
So I turn to books to escape outta there.

Nothing fancy.
Nothing deep.
Only pure escape is what I keep
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Chick lit ...
   Beach reads ...
      Or light fantasy.
​Anything to make my heart
do a little dance-asy
 
Maybe even some happy-ending science-fiction!
Truly, anything gentle 
to take my mind off our global affliction.

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Cat's audiobooking and buds

Sometimes I download digital
on my tablet to read.
But mostly it's audiobooks
that fill my need

​So I turn up my buds
and
I’m spinning away.
Off to faraway places I'll play.

​   I might be on a sunny beach in Nantucket.
Or roaming English countryside, 
picking wildflowers with a bucket.
 
Doesn’t matter where.
just places Covid-free, please
for breaths of sweet germ-free air!
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Photo by Kamille Sampaio from Pexels

How I yearn to stand close,
with ease and no resistance.

And
​no more
virtual chats
or
bloody
social-distance!

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​Out of time.
Can’t think of more to rhyme.
​
So I’ll close and just say,
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"Wretched Corona Virus, 

​you GO AWAY!”

Cat: Covid summer 2020

But lastly, the most important part.
It comes with passion 
and straight from my heart.
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To everyone, I plea:
Let's stick together 
and make this
wretched pandemic flee.
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* Stay well 

* Spread kindness

​* Wear the mask

​* Join the vax'd

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Please don't forget!
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Check out my YouTube channel below
to hear me narrate my Really Awful Poem.

It's my first RAP recording,
but you already know it's really awful, right [wink].

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Even more book love for you ...
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​Click over to my #Gr8Blogs pals below. From California to New Zealand, Australia, and places in between, they bring bookish delights your way. -:D. 

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Carmela Dutra
How a chance encounter with a mystery novel
turns a book-hating teen into a bookworm

Julie Schooler
Three paradoxical takeaways
from Brene Brown’s self-help books​

Sandra Bennett
Characters in a book are like friends

Auden Johnson
Best horror tropes in books and movies

Rosie Russell
Fun facts, quiz and book giveaway

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Your Turn
It's hard to stay upbeat in this marathon pandemic that's been going on too long.

​How are you staying positive during Covid? Are you reading more or less these days? What genre/kind of books draws you in?  How might books help you cope? Please share your thoughts in the comment section.

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