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Best Salk Poems

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Premium Member Salk Talk
Dr. Jonas Salk
Cursed by colleagues’ malicious talk
His vaccine a success
His reputation a mess

A genius of sorts
But questionable reports
Made it no surprise
He never received a Nobel...

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Categories: salk, betrayal, career, courage, dedication,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Poliomyelitis
Some Egyptian drawings are said to depict polio victims;
This disease has been in existence for most of history.
Polio became an epidemic as early as eighteen...

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Categories: salk, history
Form: Rhyme
Instruments
an instrument can be defined
as a device that produces musical sound
or it may be a tool for making things 
perfectly round

you can strum an instrument...

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Categories: salk, history
Form: Couplet
Tragic Loss
Brakes squeal

Metal smashes

Glass shatters

Hearts breaking

Bodies shaking

Dreams destroyed

Pain rips through me

As I fly through the air

All things leave me

Eternal sleep is what I do

Weep many not

Brief...

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Categories: salk, dark, death, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Any More Salks Out There
As Jonas was decried, put down
And ridiculed when he 
Was doing Polio vaccines,
Successful in the end….
Is there no “Salk” out there somewhere
To do the same...

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© W.C. Hull  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salk, sick,
Form: Free verse



Up and Down Kinda Gal
My emotions 
I never can seem to control them
    One minute their up
  the next their down
    ...

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Categories: salk, friendship, happiness, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Our Unplanned Child
Broken down meatal cribs with wooden bars.
About the first,
it was as much to her as I to it,
the cloth thread bare.

It was so much and...

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Categories: salk, 12th grade,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Being Willing
Being Willing
Written: by Miracle Man
7-21-2023

God’s purpose for each is to go and do,
for HIS fields are white and laborers few.

God make us willing to share...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salk, god, work,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs