Best Ventilators Poems

 Poetic Crimes 

On and on
they go
the vaccine makes three heads
and sixteen toes

An elephant trunk
and five giraffe necks
not to mention a terrible
desire for Bill Gates micro softy

The 1600's sure had a basket
of stupid apples
how they bred them youngins
into 2021 is scary

Fools existed from the beginning
they...

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Wow, it turns out Trump was right.
I saw it on “the Onion” - posted overnight.

Scientists woke up today and the virus
was simply gone - the miracle - has happened.
And they said that Trump was wrong!

The once dying - started laughing
first responders broke into song
patients shrugged...

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You are told there is no pandemic.
You are told it’s all a hoax.
You are told it’s a deep state conspiracy.
Three thousand deaths here, 
               three thousand deaths there,
pretty soon you’re talking...

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As I travelled across the night sky
by means of an arrowhead-shaped ship
that used free energy; present across every
moon and star,
I noticed that there was no other soul
in the crew’s deck and pilot’s cockpit

‘‘Can I be in a gigantic kind of drone
of some sort?’’ I asked...

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The old house stands still.
Rot has set in.
A flying termite caught in the webs of a dead spider, sway to the shrill of a ceiling fan.
All things sway.
Dreams rise and suffocate in the mouldering mortars 
Falling on the adjacent tiled roof. 
They scream, laugh, make love, declare...

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My lost rib is lost
Girls reject me everywhere
some raise their noses when they see me
In the college they ran away from me
claiming my socks smell nasty
In dance halls bull-dance is killing me
I am told my feet is big and flat like Chapatti
That is the reason...

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A mask hides what is to happen next
all dark stair steps, will future be vexed?

Unknown disease, please touch me not 
a nimble mind sits, fearful in distraught.

Flux of arduous mist, in smoke of doubt 
dread enslaved bodies, banned going out.

Unstable present, put in bottomless holes
forgotten...

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The large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached for a screaming, gangs clutched for their money, the elderly...

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Weekly this sorry procession
rolls out a parade of wannabe
kings and queens,
heirs unapparent to the realms of nothingness.

Girls with elaborate hairdos,
boys drenched in cheap cologne;
drawn to the main drag pubs,
solitary ventilators of the monochrome kingdom.

Factory gates closed, chained, padlocked;
the great Friday escape, a weekend parole
‘till Monday...

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The hearts of our once invisible heroes grow weary fighting a relentless demon.
God make it stop!

They sacrifice all with little to save souls from the consuming darkness surrounding them.
God make it stop!

How many faces of those gasping for life’s last breath will be burned into...

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There's anger afloat in the air;
folks are dying from lack of care.

Those in intensive care fear death; 
no ventilators; out of breath.

Old folks under strict quarantine;
now, wait for a cure or vaccine.

Triage is a tricky process;
some value older lives far less.

Thank God we're not all...

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Villanelle: Alright guys: Heave and Ho! And let it go

(Confinement to one’s home though fines during « outings" add to revenue, private companies take orders from far-flung lands for masks, gloves and ventilators and protective surgical equipment when the Chinese already informed The WHO of...

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It's Day but It's Night,
It's Dark but the light is present,
It's Cold but the light is present,
It's War but no Fight!
It's awkward, Silent and Smelling!
I wonder if I'm dreaming or I'm awake?

Years ago, They fought for Peace.
Years ago, They won the Race.
They celebrated but graves...

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I am close to my God in the outdoors
Where earth smells linger on the wind.
The wonder of creation is everywhere
And I feel my heart rest at peace.

It was in the outdoors that disaster struck
my son, a new father. He  collapsed while jogging,
saved by a...

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the road to revolution (no, REALLY)
Do you guys remember your history classes by any chance?
I was browsing through my AP World history class book,
in my not-entirely-wanted, new-found, infinite leisure time when it struck me……

The world is pandemic-ally on fire
our orderly systems haywire.
Trump thinks the problem...

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