Bring Back Those Summer Nights
...
Bring back, oh do bring back, those peaceful summer nights!
When the world was not dark, but ever so still and twinkling bright.
Where eating foods of choice, was not a politically of...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, america, children, family, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Innocuous Inoculation
...Well, I had my shots – also my booster,
And ain't been near afeared as I used-ter.
Wearin' a mask
Ain't no hard task.
Think old Doc Fauci is a true-bluester....
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, science,
Form: Limerick
Vaccination
...Whatever mix of proteins poured
With that inoculation draught
Drunk by my vein, not thirsted for,
But sipped in the subtle rhythms
Of pulse beat, of embodiment,
Moulds to the clay that forms mys...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, destiny, faith, health, hope,
Form: Free verse
Crossroads
...To take the vaccine
That is the decision
People must make
On Covid nineteen
A choice to decide
by the close of day
I have just reached that crossroads
knowing that the conspiracy t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, conflict, health,
Form: Shape
True, a Myth-And-A-Half Ever Since Dim Antiquity
...True, a Myth-and-a-half ever since dim Antiquity
“Breathes there the Man with Soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my Native Land”
True, a myth-and-a-...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, leadership, people, vanity,
Form: Political Verse
Straight Outta Lockdown
...You are now about to witness my lack of street knowledge
Straight outta lockdown,
lazy brother named THE DUDE
Formed a gang called diggers With Altitudes
Work is called off, I got a paid off
Str...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Life In a Suitcase
...LIFE IN A SUITCASE
Crawling in the loft today, I found the suitcase.
Through a cobweb curtain, beneath a patina of dust
It lay.
Just where it’s lain for twenty years, full of m...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, childhood, family, school,
Form: Rhyme
Thank You For Your Service
...THANK YOU
FOR YOUR SERVICE.
THANK YOU
FRONT LINE WORKERS..
FOR PUTTING YOUR ASS
ON THE FRONT LINE
TO PROTECT ME
FROM THE ENEMIES
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
THANK YOU
SERVICE MEMBERS,
M...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, america, courage, dedication, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Every Minute Palpitation In Covid War
...Agreeable Dawn for a
In though a blade
No other goal .... "Go just bounce around"
Every clump made me haggle with fate
Twinkle in my lips at the end of walk
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, destiny, fear, horror, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Poison Ivy
...Those nights be crazy but livid while my imagination runs wilder than poison ivy which could be deadly
but with the right antidote could be inoculated in a way by means of inoculation metaphoricall...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, beauty, blessing, change, encouraging,
Form: I do not know?
Needle Less Explanation Concerning
...Needle less explanation concerning...
Fabled, faded, and faint scars courtesy varicella,
a highly contagious infection caused
by varicella zoster virus can still be seen
unlike kids today in...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Inoculation
...huge uninviting
near fence post low to ground —
maddening hornets
drive by shooting of spray can
the window of victim’s steamed
12/16/2018...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, insect,
Form: Tanka
You Made a Difference
...Baby,
You have become a fixture in my mind...
treading lightly... meaningfully... with purpose.
with each traverse, the words and wisdom you impart
leave an indelible print..for one so..might ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, black love, dedication, deep,
Form: Ode
Under the Sun
...Under the sun
beaks of death
points at living things
that roam the universe
none with armor
Under the sun
there is no inoculation
great armies go to war
to search for death
none with armor...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, irony, war,
Form: Free verse
Speaking With a Loud Quiet Voice
...You speak into your child's life in whispers
With the strength of the four winds
No need for yelling
For your child has expectant ears
Wisdom
A fathered gift
Born out of pained understanding
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
inoculation, blessing, father,
Form: Free verse
Related Poems