Corona Conundrum Poem by Jyoti Patil

What could all these disparate things possibly have in common?
Flowers and crows, priests and soldiers,
Suns and moons, kings and queens, viruses and lagers?
Well, at a glance they all seem Greek and Roman.

The origin of the word corona is beset with
The history of Latin words crown, coronal,
Coronary, coronet, coronation or corolla.
The very word crown indicates coronet, garland or wreath.

Coronation is another word close to the bower,
Indicates ceremony of crowning a king or queen,
Corolla a botanical term for the petals of a flower
Or little garland, a diminutive of corona serene.

Latin corona adopted from the Greek korone,
Used for a crow or seabird of a kind
Or for anything curved or hooked hone,
Taken as a short form for coronavirus as a rind.

But no beauty as the name suggests the deadly corona has
With projected club-like spikes all over its surface,
With a protein coat, spherical in form with variant phase
Causing respiratory infection unto death without any grace.