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
The 1918 Spanish Flu PandemicIn 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
What If Written Pre PandemicWHAT 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
And I Am GratefulA 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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Categories:
pandemic, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
Mundane Matters of MortalsAlas
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
Silent SanctuaryThis 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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Categories:
pandemic, peace, senses, silence,
Form:
Couplet
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
Buried AliveBuried 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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Categories:
pandemic, anxiety, depression, house, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
CompanionsTiny 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
Thanksgiving Day Twenty-TwentyAlas, 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
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
CovidiusA 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 MccoyThe 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
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
To the Fallen of Covid 19To 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