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Ebola Poems - Poems about Ebola

Polio Is Back In Town
Hoop-la! Hoop-la! Polio is back in town. And it is sick of being silent With all the other viruses around. It wants some humans to infect To gain back some respect. Covid and monkeypox, you better watch out Ebola, Marburg, Tuberculosis, and AIDS too. Polio is nothing to scoff about It will paralyse little children and put you in an iron lung...

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Categories: ebola, health, horror, nature, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Ebola Children
Ebola childreN Sons and daughters of dead bodies orphans to fading villages, victims of hunger and malnutrition. your skin peeling of your bones limbs keep treading on soil filled dead glories children of empty promises where graves await your deforming spirit. children of ebola,sons and daughters of designed suffering totems of early parenting, culprits of stolen foods,victims of child trafficking. servants of deaf GOD,a body...

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Categories: ebola, africa,
Form: Free verse



Written During the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
EBOLA why should i care? it comes out of nowhere i am here, they are there, suffering, kids, women, people, like me but they are from a primitive society where people know their neighbors, and it takes a village to raise a kid, whats up with that? but EBOLA is evil, it ruins villages, people die, horriblyly forget that. ive decided to help...

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Categories: ebola, africa, community, death,
Form: Elegy
Ebola
Ebola By Linda Hays-Gibbs A horrible deathly disease has spread With terrible swiftness and silent dread Our people with frantic astonishment seek Why does our government seem so weak Not only do they expose our children to it They won't give us a Czar that even knew it A man with no medical expertise While our borders are open wide to...

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Categories: ebola, africa, body, caregiving, death,
Form: Ballad
Ebola
Read more at: http://www.poetrysoup.com/member_area/submit_poems.aspx Ending the life of the innocents Both sexes and ages you destroy, to Offer widows and inconsolable orphans; Lamentation and mourning to my motherland Africa Read more at: http://www.poetrysoup.com/member_area/submit_poems.asp...

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Categories: ebola, africa, creation, death,
Form: Acrostic



Ebola and the Death of Home
I did'nt know what to expect as a volunteer nurse, being used to,"hello Mr Smith just let me take your blood pressure," or " here's your dentures, " then.... busy with a thousand things. but ebola caught me with my pants down, you know, the death, the death and the plastic clothes...the one hundred and...

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Categories: ebola, angst, community, death, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A River Called Ebola
Thathud, boom boom boom Thathud, boom boom boom I listen As drums beat in Africa Voices rise above the pounding Mourning Crying out for their lost For their feverish Helpless people dying one loving touch at a time Ebola, your tears bring destruction You methodically make your way to the city The river from which you flow is cursed A stream of blood gushes...

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Categories: ebola, africa, bereavement, death, education,
Form: Free verse
Ebola - Cinquain
ebola condemned, invisible frightening, menacing, terrifying hope is seeing light in the darkness hemorrhage...

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Categories: ebola, death, deep,
Form: Cinquain
Doctors Moe, Larry and Curly Fight Ebola
By Elton Camp Of Ebola, sensible persons are scared There was time in the US to be prepared For decades the virus has been known How to control has clearly been shown Working in a crude Liberian tent Doctors are found reasonably content When, to safety, strict attention is paid Ebola virus disease is rarely conveyed Growing numbers in Africa dead Showed Ebola continued to...

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Categories: ebola, angst,
Form: Rhyme
An Ebola Haiku
Ebola Haiku They were in command And should haven taken a stand Not put heads in sand. Seems simple to me For better someone to be Strings attached cut free. Where is place to park? Wondered around in the dark Learned place on a lark. Can be contagious Which to me is outrageous Said all the sages. Should we only wait Not be late and educate Then start a...

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Categories: ebola, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Ebola
at first just a scare population control fear ebola is hear...

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Categories: ebola, fear, grave,
Form: Haiku
Ebola 1
Everyone needs to be conscious to stay safe or alive Because Ebola(named after a river)virus ravages with a mission to kill, Often hand washing with soap or alcohol burns like grill, Loss of appetite,vomiting,diarrhoea,sore throat,fever are imminent. Animal vectors like bats should not be consumed which is very pertinent. *May God save us from this dreaded disease that...

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Categories: ebola, life,
Form: Acrostic
The Horror of Ebola Virus Disease
By Elton Camp She was weak from vomiting and diarrhea Blood ran from her gums onto her teeth Her husband and sons had died horribly Only she and daughter Anne remained The whimpering child clutched her mother Soon, there was no longer any response Anne ran to the neighboring metal shack “Help me! I think mother is dead too.” “Get away!” the family...

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Categories: ebola, africa,
Form: Free verse
An Ebola Victim Visits the Hospital
By Elton Camp Katsu barely made it through the door Where he collapsed onto the floor The receptionist didn’t leave any doubt “For help, these paper first fill out!” “So, up from there and get going. How you’ll pay, we must be knowing.” “But Liberia is where I have been. I’m about to throw up yet again!” “Too bad, but you will be just...

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Categories: ebola, horror,
Form: Rhyme
King Ebola
My son he now rules our land. A great tyrant for a king. He has made his decrees known; shake hands with no the other Lest he grabs and sentences you to death. this my fathers' fathers' fathers and I did without fear. Yes we love the dead, Respect the dead, Care for the dead and leave living men suffering. When I...

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Categories: ebola, africa,
Form: Free verse

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