Best Ebola Poems

Thathud, boom boom boom 
Thathud, boom boom boom
I listen
As drums beat in Africa
Voices rise above the pounding
Mourning 
Crying out for their lost
For their feverish
Helpless people dying one loving touch at a time
Ebola, your tears bring destruction
You methodically  make your way to the city
The river...

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Ebola

August in twenty fourteen
A sign of death upon the screen
West Africa - Liberia, 
Sierra Leone - now Nigeria

A swathe of death - a swift nasty one
Sweeps through these lands killing one by one
Who knows where this invisible curse
Will strike or if it will get worse

(EVD)...

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ebola
condemned, invisible
frightening, menacing, terrifying
hope is seeing light in the darkness
hemorrhage...

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Ebola Haiku

They were in command
And should haven taken a stand
Not put heads in sand.

Seems simple to me
For better someone to be
Strings attached cut free.

Where is place to park?
Wondered around in the dark
Learned place on a lark.

Can be contagious 
Which to me is outrageous
Said all the...

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By Elton Camp

She was weak from vomiting and diarrhea
Blood ran from her gums onto her teeth

Her husband and sons had died horribly
Only she and daughter Anne remained

The whimpering child clutched her mother
Soon, there was no longer any response

Anne ran to the neighboring metal shack
“Help me!...

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at first just a scare
population control fear 
ebola is hear...

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EBOLA
why should i care?
it comes out of nowhere
i am here, they are there,
suffering, kids, women, people, like me
but they are from a primitive society
where people know their neighbors, 
and it takes a village to raise a kid, whats up with that?
but EBOLA is evil, it...

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By Elton Camp

Of Ebola, sensible persons are scared
There was time in the US to be prepared

For decades the virus has been known
How to control has clearly been shown

Working in a crude Liberian tent
Doctors are found reasonably content

When, to safety, strict attention is paid
Ebola virus disease...

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Ending the life of the innocents   
Both sexes and ages you destroy, to
Offer widows and inconsolable orphans;
Lamentation and mourning to my motherland
Africa
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Ebola childreN

Sons and daughters of dead bodies
orphans to fading villages,
victims of hunger and malnutrition.
your skin peeling of your bones
limbs keep treading on soil filled dead glories
children of empty promises where graves await your deforming spirit.

children of ebola,sons and daughters of designed suffering
totems of early parenting,
culprits...

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Everyone needs to be conscious to stay safe or alive
Because Ebola(named after a river)virus ravages with a mission to kill,
Often hand washing with soap or  alcohol burns like grill,
Loss of appetite,vomiting,diarrhoea,sore throat,fever are imminent.
Animal vectors like bats should not be consumed which is very...

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Ebola
Formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever
First appeared in Nineteen sixty six
Found in Sudan's Nzara
Concomitantly, Congo's Ebola River
There wasn't any quick fix
From nowhere It has visited the world again
Leaving the world see everything in train
Scaring my wonderful West Africa
As it drains countries like Nigeria,
Guinea, Sierra leone...

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By Elton Camp

Katsu barely made it through the door
Where he collapsed onto the floor

The receptionist didn’t leave any doubt
“For help, these paper first fill out!”

“So, up from there and get going.
How you’ll pay, we must be knowing.”

“But Liberia is where I have been.
I’m about to...

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Ebola
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
A horrible deathly disease has spread 
With terrible swiftness and silent dread
Our people with frantic astonishment seek
Why does our government seem so weak
Not only do they  expose our children to it
They won't give us a Czar that even knew it 
A man...

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My son he now rules our land.
A great tyrant for a king.
He has made his decrees known;

shake hands with no the other 
Lest he grabs and sentences you to death.
this my fathers' fathers' fathers and I did without fear.

Yes we love the dead, 
Respect the...

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