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Best Epidemic Poems

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Premium Member Bees, Birds and Butterflies
Heart is a neglected garden,
diseased by an epidemic of weeds.
Breathless, pining for your breaths -
breathe passion into me

so bees, birds and butterflies return.

Cultivate soul with...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidemic, analogy, nature, romance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Peace of Mind -
Let the waves carry me to a new destination
  My mind needs peace - this is not an individual epidemic
  The feeling of...

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Categories: epidemic, life,
Form: Verse
America, Oh America
AMERICA, OH AMERICA

America, oh America, the mother of Exiles,
Mighty woman with a torch,
Towers high as a top notch
Whose flame is the imprisoned fire
With conquering limbs...

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Categories: epidemic, 1st grade, america, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Just Around the Corner
Maybe the most deadly disease is just around our corner
Carried to our doorstep by an unsuspected foreigner
Ebola is lethal with a fatality rate that is...

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Categories: epidemic, health, sick, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: epidemic, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Evolution of Learning (Part One)
It amazes me how much man has evolved
Yet, How little he has learned
All around the globe
Millions die of disease and starvation
While the ever so intelligent...

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Categories: epidemic, history, life, loss, people,
Form: Free verse
I Am So Tired
I am tired of counting the red dwarf stars in the Milky Way.
I am tired of counting the 7 years of grain in Pharaoh's silos.
I...

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© Beryl Dov  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidemic, bereavement, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Tears of 2020
Fierce winds are blowing

In this dance of the raging sea

A thundering voice is calling

Disaster and misery

Great storms are warning

Flooding and catastrophe

Fears of a world epidemic

Now...

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Categories: epidemic, humanity, planet, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Little Kindness Never Hurts -
// Being kind has many advantages
It feels good to please someone else
I always have time for those who need a conversations
I am kind without any...

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Categories: epidemic, caregiving, love,
Form: Free verse
Face of a Beggar Child
FACE OF A BEGGAR CHILD

I saw your tear-stained face O’ child
It swam before my eyes at night
I clearly saw your life’s struggle,
Your painful hunger pangs...

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Categories: epidemic, caregiving, childhood, children, life,
Form: Rhyme
Contagious
Smiling is infectious, you can catch it like the flu.
When somenone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I turned around the corner and saw...

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Categories: epidemic, happiness, inspirational, smile,
Form: Lyric
Coronavirus a Germaphobe's Nightmare
Recently, my ears have heard
Some news that sounds quite absurd
My eyes can’t believe what they have seen
Is this for real, an outright global panic
Regarding the...

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Categories: epidemic, humorous, stress, world,
Form: Rhyme
The Definition of Innocence Part1
What is innocence
Is it a little boy 
that pulls his toy 
fire truck down the street
And it follows him on a string
As he dodges empty...

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Categories: epidemic, life, sad, slam
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Definition of Innocence Part 2
(continued from part 1)

What is innocence
that little boy
whose pulling his toy 
with it’s broken wheel
Do you think he doesn’t know that the price of that...

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Categories: epidemic, life, sad, slamtime, ,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Vicious Cycle of Rudeness
Rudeness at places of work is a terminal cancer
That reduces and kills productivity
Promoting the dancer
Who feels her rudeness proclivity

Resembles a godsend in her way of...

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Categories: epidemic, poems,
Form: Free verse

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