Preventable Poems - Poems about Preventable

Invert the Hierarchy

...About 600 BC sailors went down the East African shore
A Pharoah had sent them, afraid of an oncoming war
They rounded the coast at the African horn
Astonished at what they saw that morn.
The sun ...

AFRICA'S SACRED ARK

...Soon,
The sacred black ashes and dark disfigured, but resilient bones of our enslaved, enraged and estranged ancestors, 
Will awake from their centuries of dazed, polluted and denigrated slumber, t...

PSYCHEDELIC

...
   Sudden strange strong feelings I had to sense
    during my life - long experience 
    I think, the proper adjective is psychedelic.
    Odd impact, mostly bad from loud sound  or music.
  ...

A Rant

...It happens more than you would want it to
It happens more than you want to know
A child is left unattended on a bus somewhere
A preventable problem if you look in care
This time it was not a chil...

I Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem

...Overindulgence, it’s just the way it is in this society.
Overindulgence in sex, food, alcohol, drugs, spending,
spending beyond the means and getting in debted for 
self-indulgence in vanity, mate...

Poetic Podcast Episode 24 Bop

...Pictures of babies and license plates,
are you asking a criminal to find you? 
The internet is NOT benevolent.
It’s phony as hell, you better believe it;
Keep your life out of reach and private.
...

The State of the Species

...
   58% of hospital infections
     preventable by washing hands

   What does this tell us
     about 21st-century man...

Muse Speaks

...When universal trauma lurks
with upper hand,
To know paranoid loss
is to fear unjust death
of much-loved reputation
compassion's robust integrity
and pleasure's self-respect.

When unitarian ...

Earthquake and Japan

...The bizarre scene when Earth has been pressured
And on Richter Scales this can be measured:
When the immovable readily quake,
Not a single hard rock failing to shake…

A punishment too familiar ...

Lapse Made His Shop Collapse

...I knew it was a lapse
That made his shop collapse:
To thrown questions “Perhaps”
To feared comments “Sharraps!”

One could just sense the lapse
In the widening gaps,
On wrong heads placed caps...

Lazy Guys In White House

...Are there lazy guys in The White House?
Let’s pick your loudest ‘’ Yes’’ or ‘’No’’
And could they World Peace Moves a bit douse 
I would wait for a ‘’ Speak on’’ or ‘’ Go.’’

For the first, Russ...

With Flood Shedding Blood

...It was their own way of shedding blood:
Their backs turning to a surging flood,
Until it warranted the Ark of Noah
Or left survivors a preventable fewer …
To rain-boots sticking, publishing no fe...

Lions Led By a Donkey

...I could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their thousands, died needlessly
The U.K. had a spiralling ...

175,000 Corona Ghosts

...175,000 Corona Ghosts

The corona ghosts get together
The 175, 000 band together 
And vow to haunt the living

As the voice of the dead
Need to be heard 
In the halls of power

They march t...

Dedication To Alex Braes

...The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad 
all he could do was weep 
he, knee was so painful
he had to go to the ho...

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