A million diseases
In the mortal realm, a million diseases lurk
Each one poised to kill a man
The ache of longing for distant dreams
Neglecting the near for a pitiful mirage
The boil of lust, yielding to flesh
Forsaking the path of chastity
The fever of impatience, rushing to doom
While salvation stands on a steep hill
Awaiting careful tread
In the mortal realm, a million
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Categories:
diseases, life,
Form: Free verse
Sicknesses In Action
Bp is up
Tb is breaking
Asthma closes up ?
Ebola is exterminating
HIV is viral
Cancer is cutting
Diabete is destroying
Corona is crushing
Malaria is messing.
People are crying
Hurting
Dying daily
Here and there.
May 06/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
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Categories:
diseases, 12th grade, death, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Home of Three Diseases
A body housing three diseases
With three more as the visiting ones:
Enjoy he does just brief releases,
On some days obliged to laugh but once...
A rough fate acting as it pleases;
Each time he dumped his drugs worse than dunce
Cimetidine that Ulcer eases
Or else a body hit on each ounce
Inhaler against the longest wheezes;
No Ciproxin, Salmonella pounce...
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Categories:
diseases, courage, cry, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Water Borne Diseases
Water-borne diseases
Man senselessly increases
With his trembling “No”
To drinks he doesn’t know
Instead of “The firmest”
That portrays “The Dead Earnest”
Water-borne diseases
One hopelessly increases
By not taking The Certified Pure
Or with a bow declining The Impure
Between tap water adjudged pure
And liquor blissfully a lure.
Isn’t affordable to the poor
Bottled water for official tour?
Then, one always pick one up after manicure
Beating
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Categories:
diseases, food, happy, health, water,
Form: Rhyme
Sick Words
(A linguistic experience)
Was there any argument that justified
the existence of the word-disease?
something more was said of this
at the beginning of the completion of the understanding
who disputed any logos establishing the new negative balance
on the influence of the word on the general condition
of the illiterate impatient patient?
scary demon-letters!
they run through the phrasal
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Categories:
diseases, crazy, imagination, poems,
Form: Free verse
African Wild Dogs
African Wild Dogs are listed as, endangered
and they are also known as, the African Painted Dog
They are found in the South, and South East Africa
and they inhabit, forests, grasslands and deserts
Wild Dogs like to gather socially, in packs of around ten individuals
but this doesn’t help, when they catch diseases of distemper and rabies
They are threatened
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Categories:
diseases, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
Diseases of the Body and Soul
There are people
and there are superficial evils ...
Illnesses that bother,
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Categories:
diseases, allusion, body, creation, literature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Imprisoned
IMPRISONED
Radhika Sanoj
The cloudy apprehensions snarl at us,
The prisoners of a diseased planet..
We are no different nation..
We are alike
White, black, brown..,
All terribly and virtuously alike.
We together creep in fetters,
Leaving Springs behind..
Once we read , "can spring be far....."
Now winter's teeths whiten
Our fragile bones..
Oh my dear, kiss me with a life,
Miracle of a prayer
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Categories:
diseases, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Diseases
Fighting,
Fighting,
Can't fight no more,
It's winning the game,
A game I don't want to play anymore,
My bodies weak,
Sometimes I don't want to move,
But my job as a wife,
And a mother,
Is what makes me fight through,
The love of my life,
And others around me,
Thank god,
For giving things to me,
Day to day,
Night after night,
I'm blessed for another beautiful day,
In this
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Categories:
diseases, cancer, cry, death, depression,
Form: ABC
Damages and Diseases of the Swinging Pendulum Mind: Part Four
The pendulum starts gaining speed again
I can’t sleep
I feel so guilty keeping you around
I shouldn’t
I should not do this to you
If I were truly your friend
I would set you free
I should
I should
So why can’t I
Why can’t I function without you
woosh, woosh
The pendulum speeds
And speeds
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
I am sorry
I am sorry
So sorry
So sorry
So sorry
So
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Categories:
diseases, angst, fear, sad, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Damages and Diseases of the Swinging Pendulum Mind: Part Three
Let you be
I don’t want to hurt you
I don’t want to
I don’t
I don’t
I’m so sorry
I’m so scared
I’m scarred
I’m scared
I’m sorry
You’re always so great to me
Always
Always
I’m nothing but trouble to you
Nothing but impending pain and torture
Grief and Sorrow
Nothing good
Nothing good
I am so very sorry
I’m sorry that I cling to you as a life line
That I can’t
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Categories:
diseases, angst, fear, sad, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Damages and Diseases of the Swinging Pendulum Mind: Part Two
I’m so afraid of myself
Afraid of the anger that burns my soul
A vicious poison
Consuming what should be my soul
Corrupting the very breadth of life in me
A false sense of control was all I ever had
But yet…with you
Everything is calmer
Everything is clearer
You are my savior
My savior
My grace
But the pendulum still swings
Still swings
The danger never really gone
Just…eased
My
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Categories:
diseases, angst, fear, sad, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Damages and Diseases of the Swinging Pendulum Mind: Part One
Back and Forth
Back and Forth
My cruel mind goes
Like the deadly pendulum
It swings some more
Entrapping those that come around
Back and Forth
Back and Forth
Like the tides of the frozen ocean
Anger
Love
Sadness
Hatred
Back and Forth
Back and Forth
Unable to stop
Continually altering my thoughts
Causing me to cause problems
When there should be none
When I should only hold you up
I drag you down
Then I
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Categories:
diseases, angst, sad, sorry, me,
Form: Free verse
How To Contact Certain Diseases
When you eat chicken,you get chicken-pox.
When you play polo, you catch polio.
When you color,you catch cholera.
When you descend on people you catch dysentry.
When you like harvesting potato tubers you catch tuberculosis.
When you steal answer you catch cancer.
When you don't like people you catch Aids.
When you eat from a dish in a cafeteria you catch diphteria.
If
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Categories:
diseases, children, funny, on writing
Form: Burlesque