Modern Babel
...Antibiotics
inventions for surgery
more effective and
renown – disinfectants
so germs are deadly affected,
yet disease and poverty
abound – we build our
towers ever higher
loftier into...
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Categories:
disinfectants, addiction, bible, culture, evil,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is a Life-Cherishing Force
...Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
- Mary Olive...
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Categories:
disinfectants, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Nomad's Lockdown Tale
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In a time of panic,when the world battled a pandemic,
He was a migrant,kicked by nasty tyrants.
Days of thirst,Months of famine;
Shattered dreams,isolation and quarantine,
The lock down had...
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Categories:
disinfectants, assonance, emotions,
Form: Metrical Tale
Donald Trump: the Clorox Couplets
...Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch
To outfox the pox:
kill yourself first, with Clorox!
And since death is the goal,
mainline Lysol!
No vaccine?
Just ch...
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Categories:
disinfectants, america, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The New Pestilence
...There at once looms a lethal disease
Across the globe begins to breeze
Taking its toll on the old and young
Flings the whole world into unease
Danger impending, little chance to duck
Everyone ...
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Categories:
disinfectants, health,
Form: Rhyme
Different Schools of Thought
...If you want to see how well your school is doing,
In the conservation stakes,
The race on which the future of the planet,
Could well be decided,
It would do no harm to look at their plans for ma...
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Categories:
disinfectants, bereavement, character, cheer up,
Form: Blitz
A Hospital In Metroland 1930
...The hospital smelt of disinfectants strong bleach many potions, polish and ether,
Cleanliness so important always clean and polished, in the waiting room, leather,
A policeman down a corridor in a te...
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Categories:
disinfectants, nostalgia, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry