"New Zealand-born poet Tomos Roberts' video, The Great Realisation, has already racked up more than twenty-four million views across Facebook and YouTube - and is broadcast in full below. Roberts - aka Tom Foolery - thinks the world will be a better place after the coronavirus pandemic than before, explaining it in feelgood form in the four-minute clip.

In the optimistic, forward-looking poem, Roberts speaks to a child about how the world was before the virus took over. People were too dependent on technology, there was rampant overconsumption, and global warming was a major problem. But as the pandemic struck and people were forced into lockdown, they started to speak to each other a lot more, especially loved ones. The planet started to recuperate as factories and industries paused. Shutting down much of the world for the past month had provided a great opportunity to rejig the world order. "Let's think constructively: Are there steps that we can take as individuals or as societies that would lessen the suffering of people and increase the joy?" he said. "If you were going to aim for something, I think that would be a nice place to start and you can see what happens after that." (Kiwi poet's viral fairytale strikes a chord in Hollywood, Star News, 6 May 2020)

This is a letter Ian Piper, School Principal at British International School Washington sent to his school community: a beautiful call to arms to become more fully human "to strive to be the best parent | partner | friend | colleague that we can be"

Kitty O'Meara, a retired teacher from Madison, Wisconsin, posted this prose poem on her personal Facebook.

“And the people stayed home...

And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.

And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows.

And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed.

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed." ~ Author: Kitty O'Meara (art: Anna Speshilova)