Salk Poems - Poems about Salk

The Nobel Prizes

...When I walk among the living with this spectral face,
I, Alfred Nobel, weep for what bears my name.
I dreamed of honor that would heal nations,
of a crown given only to those
who sowed fraternity...

Categories: salk, adventure, allusion, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Being Willing

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Being Willing
Written: by Miracle Man
7-21-2023

God’s purpose for each is to go and do,
for HIS fields are white and laborers few.

God make us willing to share our belief. 
Using ...

Categories: salk, god, work,
Form: Couplet

Our Unplanned Child

...Broken down meatal cribs with wooden bars.
About the first,
it was as much to her as I to it,
the cloth thread bare.

It was so much and different from today,
always dark and no sunrise.
Bibli...

Categories: salk, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Any More Salks Out There

...As Jonas was decried, put down
And ridiculed when he 
Was doing Polio vaccines,
Successful in the end….
Is there no “Salk” out there somewhere
To do the same for this
Coronavirus nineteen that’...

Categories: salk, sick,
Form: Free verse

Salk Talk

...Dr. Jonas Salk
Cursed by colleagues’ malicious talk
His vaccine a success
His reputation a mess

A genius of sorts
But questionable reports
Made it no surprise
He never received a Nobel Prize...

Categories: salk, betrayal, career, courage, dedication,
Form: Clerihew

Tragic Loss

...Brakes squeal

Metal smashes

Glass shatters

Hearts breaking

Bodies shaking

Dreams destroyed

Pain rips through me

As I fly through the air

All things leave me

Eternal sleep i...

Categories: salk, dark, death, lost love,
Form: I do not know?

Poliomyelitis

...Some Egyptian drawings are said to depict polio victims;
This disease has been in existence for most of history.
Polio became an epidemic as early as eighteen eighty,
But yet unnamed and cause unk...

Categories: salk, history
Form: Rhyme

Instruments

...an instrument can be defined
as a device that produces musical sound
or it may be a tool for making things 
perfectly round

you can strum an instrument 
and maybe play a tune
you can use an i...

Categories: salk, history
Form: Couplet

Up and Down Kinda Gal

...My emotions 
I never can seem to control them
    One minute their up
  the next their down
         On good days I'm 
      Somewhere in the middle
                Of
               yelling
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Categories: salk, friendship, happiness, life, me,
Form: Free verse