Ever Meet a Microbe
Germs in the air
bugs in our food
Microscopic creatures
attack everywhere
We’re all concerned
'bout what’s ‘out there’
As opposed to ‘what’s in’
Ever meet a microbe
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
microbe, people, satire, silence,
Form: Free verse
Microbe the Master Magician
Microbe the Master Magician had a lot to say
He swished his cape in an all-knowing way
Deep inside his role, he did not laugh or play
Taking his costume seriously on Halloween day
Want to visit grandma down at the San Francisco Bay?
No thanks he said, she would not know me, Uncle Ray.
What about trick-or-treating, what do you
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
microbe, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Silent Streets
Silent streets, frozen lights
Crystal clear in the silent night
The roads and bridges
Once where two-wheelers and four-wheelers plied,
Now, lie as if deserts
Under the dark clear sky.
Once the streets full of people,
The hustle and bustle of mankind
Now...lie as if a shooting star
Suddenly passed by.
A tiny microbe comes and takes away the lives,
Killing thousands in no time,
Heaven and
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
microbe, 10th grade, anxiety, sad,
Form: Free verse
Coronavirus Microbe Covid19 Begat
Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19) begat...
heebie jeebies couple months before March 15th, 2020
More'n three hundred and sixty six days ago,
a pandemic did devastatingly blow
across the webbed wide world
dark shadows spelled glow
bull horror seeds of hell show
did terrify *****sapiens
with unimaginable woe.
I revisited the following poem crafted last year
so little known about the when, why and
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
microbe, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Coronavirus Microbe Covid 19
Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19)
(alternately titled: yours truly doth mutter
asthma bowled dug gutter
pin yon hated chap strikingly and gently weeps,
whereby melts milquetoast like butter.)
Aye reckon eyes aforementioned
entitled microscopic organism
doth strain credulity threatening
*****sapiens left agog
stupefied, whereby mortality
of species existential crisis
pitted against unseen rapacious
(non public) enemy glow
bull diabolic scourge plaguing
world wide
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
microbe, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Microbe
The Microbe
The microbe is really very small,
In fact it's hardly there at all.
Which ought to make us realize,
Effect does not depend on size.
01/30/2018
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
microbe, humor,
Form: Couplet