Best Contagion Poems
While it feels in the noontide, just steps through the trees,
As the sky bleeds to twilight – the sweetest disease.
On a walk through the maples, an itch of romance,
As a warm breeze courts Eros at gloaming's advance.
Just a glance woos the shivers, through come hither eyes,
Nervous hands - now perspiring, by moonlight’s devise.
Down a path softly swaying, then slowly a waltz,
Till a feverish tango as all reason halts.
Soon the knees start to wobble and vision subsides,
As the world falls from focus in dizzying strides.
There’s no end to the sickness on warm summer strolls,
Should the moon cast its toxin on amorous souls.
**12/14/2017**
Torture’s Toxic Contagion
by Odin Roark
From where comes these perpetrators,
These conscienceless mortals
Whose senses are quashed by orders,
By fear of demotion,
By allegiance to evil?
Who demands the allegiance
To insulated Washington duplicity
Puppets adorned in suits and ties of importance
Astride fine leather chairs of authority?
What right does evil have over good?
Does assumed expediency have to trump integrity,
Stealthily burying principals beneath the quagmire of incompetence,
Adopting rules from coerced legal offices,
Where procedural override of accepted war conduct,
Creates U.S. atrocities into persecution’s bubbling vat waiting?
How acidic this brew of orifice aggression must be.
How explosive the brain’s chemistry must become.
How malodorous the waft of this barbaric wretchedness must seem.
Still…
How easy it is to ignore that such bad behavior
Is counter-international law,
Subject to accountability
To legal prosecution and punishment.
Are we so glib with our conscience
That we think “out of sight, out of mind” is an escape?
For…
Lest one forgets the pent up pay-back
Festering in the shadows of the victims’ “to do” lists,
One’s Machiavellian innocence may not even see it coming…
What ever their choice might be.
Torture’s toxic caldron continues to be stirred,
Too few daring to taste the fiery recipe before being served
What might be truly the last supper.
Causative agent of disease
One of several variants to appease
Void of any discriminating abstractions
Interaction breeds human contagion
Distress inflamed in us by slow vaccination
Vaccine does diminish Covid effects
Antigen activity does reject
Chills that instill fear among us
Coughs that grip lungs, with expulsion dubious
Immunizations, please make haste
Never ending cautions are relentless
Ensuring man’s safety is quite precarious .
in every kindness
a warm contagion festers –
words infecting hearts
shared love - in fevered fervent
propagate in viral flames
Smile
that dance with your lips
whether luscious or pin-stripe thing
glimmering like rubies or scales glazed by sunshine
smile
that dance on perched puffy cheeks
whether skin of cocoa freckles or roses
smile
this dance is the universal contagion
whether all thirty-two Chiclets of pearl
or bare gums
smile
that dance in your eyes
they're gemstones that sparkle
whether wrinkles all around or botoxed to the brow
smile
that dance! of the genuine you
that's the kind that makes me smile too
it's selfish. I know.
but it's the genuine kind
with flaws that I need
those smiles from beer-belly-busting chuckles
that jiggle all the way out
the smiles on kids when puppies play
when loved ones see their soldier home
and when brothers and sisters make each other proud
now your lips have stretched to the limits
to those puffy perched cheeks
when your smile grew
I smiled too
People are hurrying, scurrying, worrying
Frenziedly squirreling clusters away.
Rumbling hypotheses riding on every breeze
Cast a malificent shadow our way.
Spreading pervasively, sneakily, rapidly,
Spanning the continents, changing its tack,
Causing uncertainty, splitting humanity
Interdependency starting to crack.
Tension is rising, it's hardly surprising that
Feverish tremors disquiet the land
Something's approaching, invading, encroaching,
An unwelcome visitor, wholly unplanned.
.........................
Panic diminishes, wariness finishes
Neighbourly kindliness starting to spread,
Care for the elderly, healthy mentality
Sense of engagement and friendship instead.
Atmosphere's changing, the ranting and raging
Uncertainty, death and disease have left town.
Nobler priorities flavour communities
Stage set for change as the curtain comes down.
13.03.20
Coronavirus Covid-19 Poetry Contest - sponsored by Team Poetrysoup N/A
A Contagion is spreading, a virus older then the plague.
It kills much slower then Ebola; nowadays.
Not everyone can catch it but it will kill us all.
There is no cure for this virus, we must quarantine all involved.
The basic Symptoms are:
Insatiable lust and want, narrow vision,Irritability,Hypocrisy,Single Mindedness,
Apathy and Irrational Behavior.
Deadly Symptoms are:
Scapegoating,Recklessness,Disregard of Life,Theft and War.
If you see a person with this disease, do not approach them.
Call the center for disease control to have them quarantined.
This message is brought to you by those united against greed.
the chambers of Auschwitz are never far away
ashes do not disperse genocide that easily
cracked skulls in Rwanda don’t break away
from bone master’s lost conscience
agent orange is not yet whiter than white
Saigon holds more memories than a musical
killing fields in Cambodia famine in the Yemen
should speak a clear message to what true hardship is
all I have to do is wear a mask and wait for an injection
though there is no vaccination yet for stupidity
in the face of what is a minor incursion of freedom
compared to slaughter and crusades for a false crown
C-ontain contagion of poison,
R-epel rabidity of virus;
I-solate the positive person,
S-top the threat so serious.
T-ry to contain contagion
I-n each and every country;
N-eatly bring it to oblivion,
E-liminate the mystery:
J-ust contain contagion
O-f the monster's morbidity;
Y-ou should control the infection,
C-areful steps make it
E-asy.
M-asks contain contagion,
A-s they combat the dirt;
N-egate the contamination,
G-rime can cause pain and hurt.
U-pend the eerie epidemic,
R-epulse the alarming affliction;
A-bate the parlous pandemic,
Y-ou must contain contagion.
Topic: Birthday of Cristine Joyce A. Manguray (June 17)
the song bird’s tremolo sent a shiver down her spine
through a crack in melancholy and exasperation
with a sigh she vowed to notice the voice in her head
transparent epiphanies struck a chord with quaint joy
that she was alive despite sorrow and cascading despair
what had seemed a lullaby was merely a new beginning
Sit back and enjoy the celestial view,
you’ve climbed a volcano to get there.
I wish for every star to shine upon you.
The definition of ‘Dreams Come True’
step out in front watch them all stare.
Sit back and enjoy the celestial view.
Every wall faced you pummeled through
even when the starting line was unfair.
I wish for every star to shine upon you.
Knowing that one and one equals two
building blocks don’t lead to a scare.
Sit back and enjoy the celestial view.
Head down, plot, sip that cold brew,
flip the Powers That Be a high end swear.
I wish for every star to shine upon you.
Their jealousy is a neverending flu,
don’t let that contagion ruffle your hair.
Sit back and enjoy the celestial view,
I wish for every star to shine upon you.
epulse
I-nvisible
C-ontagion
R-ightfully
O-bliterating
G-ruesome
E-pidemic's
R-abid
D-isease
O-nce
R-isk
O-f
P-andemic
A-pplies
N-astiness
Topic: Birthday of Ric Roger D. Doropan (April 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
a Senryu poem
Oh, that my love were
contagious - you’d catch it and love
me, as I do you.
Ahh-choo!
Some suffering does not aspire to the Buddha’s kind
When the pound shop closes which is an ominous sign
Thanks God the jewellers continue to open their doors
Angry unwashed masses are difficult enough to restrain
But the bored wealthy masters might spark a revolution
If their well-deserved tastes were deprived of some spark
Class divide remains the beautiful face of glitzy diversity
Yet the danger is looming right behind a deviant facade
The great leveller has arrived in waves of moribund joy
Corona the crown of infection threatens the status quo
Does not discriminate too much about measures of wealth
Still when cast in a grave marble shines brighter than wood
17th March 2020
If you had told me in 2011 that the Steven Soderbergh movie,
"Contagion," would one day play out in real life, I would've probably
laughed at you. It seemed like Hollywood fiction nine years ago.
Today, "Contagion" is literally playing out in real life!
Watch the movie now, I dare you! It's suddenly the scariest movie
ever made! It makes "The Exorcist" look like a comedy! We've lived
through the 1949 polio epidemic, and the SARS outbreak in 2003,
We've seen from afar the Ebola virus; largely limited to Africa...
but this virus, also known as "COVID-19" is a completely different animal.
Unlike Matt Damon's character in "Contagion", nobody is immune
to it. To call it a nightmare would be a gross understatement! Healthcare professionals are at their wit's end trying to control and contain it
We've never seen a paranoia-inducing monstrosity that is COVID-19.
It's an insidious, invisible foe that has left the entire world in
a state of complete paralysis; lives here in America and far beyond
have been disrupted it like never before! It keeps spreading...
like wildfire, and claiming lives at an alarming rate.
This Coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into an abyss
of dread, but let us all cling to something infinitely powerful,
our faith. We'll get through this, by the grace of God.
Coronavirus Covid-19 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Team PoetrySoup
Date written: 03/18/2020