Best Plague Poems

as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens WE bear!

being HAVES (not the have-nots) as nature decrees
means WE’re...

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In Spring there’s friendship that’s lasted through the Winter,
all those cold nights of salted drops and quilts of snow.
The obsidian plague of midnights, melancholic drapes,
but all the while the candlelight of friendship did glow.

you’d think she’s the sun -
i wax and wane in restraints
having lost...

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Raven Speak Not To Me, For A Plague Flees Thy Lips

Sadness came, in clumps of ripping hard, smashing waves
as if morbid thoughts could such sorrows ever save,
none but the blind and deaf could know a darker realm
or more lost ship with, blinder captain at the...

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Isn’t it ironic?
That the plague called the bubonic
Killed the man but not the rat
And did not even kill the cat
That caught and killed the guilty rat

Isn’t it ironic?
That in this age of the electronic
Ebola is running unabated
It’s deathly thirst left quite unslated
Just like the plague...

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O' cloned creations,
mirroring deceptive diction
scattered in liquified letters,
across android canvases,
here comes the plague of
fabricated foolery,
spiraling in figments of
black and white illusions,
injecting illusive veins
screaming for vanity,
with verses plagiarized
from villainous valleys.

There’s nothing poetic about
the way AI is pickpocketing
rhythmic runes from the
museum of dead poets ~
immortalized on the...

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The Castle and the Plague
copyright 2020 by jon gutmacher

There was a castle dark and tall
surrounded by a towering wall
and those without
did fear that place
but never once
came face to face

The trees grew tall thru summer rain
the woods grew thick
with vines not tame
and slowly, surely
castle tall
did disappear
the...

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~ Sonnet: The Last Plague ~
(New English Sonnet)


And the Lord said to Moses that day 
That He'd bring onto Egypt one more plague 
After this Pharaoh will let go, open cage 
He'll drive you out from land for'ver  I say 

Tell people that ...

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I mourn for your passing
for your family
for your friends
for those you held close
but do not mourn for you...

you came to our shores
you came and you lied
lied about your baggage
illegal baggage you bore
within your body...

your baggage was deadly
lethal and contagious...
biological warfare
launched upon our nation
silently exploding...

first target:...

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The Mathematics Plague

By Elton Camp

It’s a fact of modern life we must face
Mathematics holds an important place

Arithmetic, basic algebra, geometry too
All are important skills for me and you

Of the people, only a tiny percent require
Advanced algebra, trig, calculus or higher

An educational development to abhor
Is to...

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grandfather 
died in the forgotten plague
of the last century*
I sit musing under the cherry
startled  by a white possum 


*tuberculosis...

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A “Big Mac attack” and “Have it your way”
are all past slogans from fast food places
for most Americans fast food will stay
because Big Macs and Whoppers feed faces

Americans love to eat on the go
we love pizza hamburgers and hot dogs
and the value meals never cost...

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WAR IS THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF MAN


As war is fought it takes charge 
And events spin out of control.
The madness of men can alter the soil 
Which nourishes the roots of their soul.

Many things will forever change 
Far more then wished to be.
As the wrath...

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A fat cat from Ararat
Ate too many mice and there she sat,
I have gorged myself I do confess,
My stomach is in great distress.

All I can do is sit and stare
As mice pass by without a care,
There's only so much one cat can do,
Perhaps the farmer...

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sweat shops exist all over the world
they are crowded factories
with poor working conditions
big name brands wanting to cut cost
contract these sweat shops
to make fast trend fashions
jeans, shoes, bags, and so much more

they exist in every country in this world
we hear a lot about factories 
in...

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A brotherly jaunt through sinister mirth
behold the brothers Death: 

gowned and guided, an ill century
the fourteenth, an alliance of crop, of plague
in ground-down death of torrential pains 
in sores and blood under the rains
that drowned the land, starved the bellies
there echoed howls of ill exclaim
a...

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