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Best Pandemic Poems

Below are the all-time best Pandemic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pandemic poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...

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Categories: pandemic, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What If Written Pre Pandemic
WHAT  IF  Written Pre-Pandemic

What if a rigid thinking, extremist group
Decided to do something about Planet Earth’s
Over-population,
I mean let’s just think about this, fantasy...

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Categories: pandemic, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And I Am Grateful
A field of wheat cloaked in dewy silence
the orchestra tunes up with avian arias
bullfrog basses and a choir of cawing crows,
xanthic sunflowers turning their heads...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pandemic, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mundane Matters of Mortals
Alas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease 
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes - 
the sickly buzz is everywhere..

the dirge of the drudge 
nowadays damn near everyone in...

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Categories: pandemic, dark, death, loss, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Sanctuary
This global pandemic causes confusion from social isolation.
In a virtual world without human touch - there will be irritation.

When burdens of life, echo like chunks...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pandemic, peace, senses, silence,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Seven Words Swirling
 
it is dawn in the city
and all is quiet and hushed 
today, I wrote seven words . . . 
the streets are windswept still
a...

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Categories: pandemic, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buried Alive
Buried Alive

These walls....
they laugh at me but no one else hears
They steal the very breath of me
...but no one seems to notice
They blare a suffocating...

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© Fj Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pandemic, anxiety, depression, house, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Companions
Tiny boardwalk along the Halifax River
Waiting to see what “catch” nature will deliver

Royal Palms’ fronds rustle in fall’s gentle breeze
No noisy distractions from teens on...

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Categories: pandemic, bird, fishing, nature,
Form: Couplet
Playing the Fiddle

Riding off into the Ivory Palace sunset,
in a pitch-black limousine, no less

Hear the heavy metallic chariot roar,
leaving exacerbated fumes echo deplored

Aural palette, enamel pestilent pain...

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Categories: pandemic, allegory, future, history, visionary,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thanksgiving Day Twenty-Twenty
Alas, hordes of ravenous relatives from very far and even near,

Won't be celebratin' at dear old Grandma's bountiful board this year,

Since the corona virus pandemic...

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Categories: pandemic, humorous, thanksgiving day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Real Mccoy - Or Is She - POTD
POTD

Synthetic hyper realistic - eclectic not eccentric 
Android Humanoid - naturalistic totally orgasmic
Unnatural physicality this futuristic fem-bot fantasy  
Against all normality she is the...

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Categories: pandemic, desire, future, lust, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Covidius
A traveling newcomer
explorer of worlds
adventurer
across the seas
from galaxies a far
new universes
such beauty and wonder
a grand tour

earth seems like a second home
breathtaking landscapes, scenery 
diversity
birds and...

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Categories: pandemic, community, death, education, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Real Mccoy
The Real McCoy


Androids Humanoid- Robotic Robots
Feel them- touch them- real life fembots

Soulless secretions a monster metallic
A copy completion approaching organic

Interacting in all moods they are...

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Categories: pandemic, desire, future, lust,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Duke of Mar-A-Lago
(Sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Duke of Plaza Toro," from The Gondoliers)
 
When all the land did take a stand
When bugs...

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Categories: pandemic, america, analogy, corruption, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member To the Fallen of Covid 19
To all the fallen of Covid 19
whose deaths were unrecorded and unseen
To those who languished in intensive care
where Fear unmasked itself to mock each prayer

To...

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Categories: pandemic, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs