Best Preventive Poems
- Norway In Virus Quarantine -
...A significantly different day
No bread or milk
empty for toilet paper
Reduced opening hours in grocery stores
- Home insulation with
respiratory infection
Rationing on medi......
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Categories:
preventive, crazy, scary, world,
Form:
Free verse
An Existential Curiosity
...Human ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer ......
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Categories:
preventive, endurance, inspiration, science, technology,
Form:
Free verse
What Matters (Most)
...What Matters…
What Matters Most…
… is Real Laughter
Not Lurid Echoes
Not Just To – Gather
But Staying Close
And Less Clatter-Chatter
Less Lies and Boasts
More Sweet Pitter-Patter
On Calm-H......
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Categories:
preventive, inspirational, people
Form:
Light Verse
Hospital Hygiene
...Sanitize your hands before
You open up the door.
Grab a tissue to protect
From germs left there before.
Purell spigots on the walls
Everywhere you turn.
Still, despite these offerings,
Most people ......
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Categories:
preventive, health,
Form:
Rhyme
- Santa Claus -
...An important element of our Christmas is of course Santa Claus
But who is this man with white long beard
Tradition holds Santa Claus at the North Pole
Christmas is tied to the traditions and stories
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Categories:
preventive, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
...The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of t......
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Categories:
preventive, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Double Setup
...Double Set Up
The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
I had found it in the shower.
Two other major surgeries I've already had that very year.
I was thirty three.
A mammogram back then ......
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Categories:
preventive, cancer, health, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Mystic Moments
...Early start
East Coast Ferry Terminal;
Sleepy journey
Trip for two
Getaway spa resort;
Rest and recuperate
Mystic moments:
Retreat into void --
Battery recharging
To re-jig sense......
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Categories:
preventive, february,
Form:
Haiku
Sacred Spacemaking
...Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace
Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely ......
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Categories:
preventive, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Designer Cabinet
...The apparent President-elect
and her closest advisers
gather to build a Cabinet
that might survive four years of dwindling hope.
Thanks so much for being here.
Let's begin with a time of silen......
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Categories:
preventive, health, humor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Discomforted By Integrity
...I wonder how many parents of students
suffer from studying and teaching white nationalism
against tides of multiculturing change.
And I wonder what our school boards
and state departments of bo......
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Categories:
preventive, child abuse, health, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Blood of Nations
...I’m looking for mine daily
A gene of combinations and strengths
A blood we share in hidings
Nation and nations as siblings
A blood of friends satisfaction
Arouses sense and feelings
Bringing joy ......
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Categories:
preventive, corruption,
Form:
Blank verse
A Season of Transformation
...spring is the season of rebirth and renovation
a time for renewal and rejuvenation
a time to clean house, to bring about some change
a time for our spirits to be rearranged
it's a ritual that req......
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Categories:
preventive, happiness, health, inspirational, seasons,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Yoga
...Yoga way of Life in ancient times
Got lost in modern materialistic times
Way of harmonising mind-body-spirit
Combination of breathing rhythm, postures, meditation, diet
Offers preventive, the......
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Categories:
preventive, life
Form:
Couplet
2 Terms of Political Office
...2 Terms Of Political Office
A political leader of a country successfully managed to extend his term of office...
Brings up the question of the wisdom of the previous curb imposed to 2 terms in of......
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Categories:
preventive, community, future, history, humanity,
Form:
Free verse