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Preventable Poems - Poems about Preventable

Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: preventable, africa, death, history, motivation,
Form: Lyric
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......

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Categories: preventable, africa, corruption, humanity, independence
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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. ......

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Categories: preventable, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: preventable, children, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: preventable, people, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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. ......

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Categories: preventable, computer, corruption, emotions, humanity,
Form: Other
Premium Member The State of the Species
... 58% of hospital infections preventable by washing hands What does this tell us about 21st-century man......

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Categories: preventable, care, health, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Muse Speaks
...When trauma lurks with upper hand, To know loss is to fear death of much-loved reputation and taxing self-respect. When therapy lends Her feminist sway to know and co-invest in life is to......

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Categories: preventable, death, health, integrity, love,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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 ......

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Categories: preventable, creation, earth, fear, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: preventable, absence, allusion, business, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: preventable, america, appreciation, devotion, international,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: preventable, change, community, confusion, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: preventable, death, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: preventable, america, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Elegy
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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Categories: preventable, emotions, funeral, grief, pain,
Form: Free verse

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