Tuberculosis Poems - Poems about Tuberculosis

...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......Read the rest...

..."Born William Henry McCarty, Jr. AKA, Billy the Kid or El Chivito, (Billy Goat/Kid). He had a younger brother named Joseph, and they both had an older sister named Bridget McCarty. Not mu......Read the rest...

...With her first words she mesmerized his soul, Of rose water and lavender was her aroma, Her tip tap of her fairy tale walk was majestic, A woman of status still in her prime of depth and note, W......Read the rest...

...just 50 years ago i was very sick no school, no play couldn't walk alone I came and went between life and death due to pulmonary tuberculosis in our neighborhood No pharmacy pharmacist No hos......Read the rest...

...Recluse by dint of circumstance Proud anonymous troglodytes forerunners of mine confronted threats less horrific than forty fifth commander in chief of United States of America. He/him (ma......Read the rest...

...we sat down at the table started eating we had a pleasant conversation I reminisced about the past with a friendly heart enjoyed the meal But the one who sat before me Couldn't tell the story c......Read the rest...

...They can't kill me Although many have tried All disappointed by the results When they discovered I had survived The Police and gangsters, Mexican and Colombian gangs And even Drug Dealers......Read the rest...

...They can't kill me Although many have tried All disappointed by the results When they discovered I had survived The Police and gangsters, Mexican and Colombian gangs And even Drug Dealers......Read the rest...

...Hoop-la! Hoop-la! Polio is back in town. And it is sick of being silent With all the other viruses around. It wants some humans to infect To gain back some respect. Covid and monkeypox, you ......Read the rest...

...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865... Petersen House, Washington, D.C. I admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, and the life and death of the sixteenth president in particular bet......Read the rest...

...A wooden flute, I glimpsed among my mother’s treasured keepsakes, Often Wondered..... Why it seemed the most precious than everything else......Read the rest...

...A wooden flute, I glimpsed among my mother’s treasured keepsakes in childhood.  being curious, asked her once… I didn’t not......Read the rest...

...Grace Darling Tempest spits upon the gunnels But Grace Darling manhandles the paddles, To rescue the folks of the Forfarshire crash, Stranded on Farne Islands off Northumberland coast. ......Read the rest...

...It's nine years in a row of continuous crisis lost in the wilderness of a dry Oasis on all long bones is the constant emphasis for a condition which began as Tuberculosis. The pain and discomfo......Read the rest...

...my mother had two tokens she never parted with - a book containing music notations, and a flute, made of brass. her favourite book had her name handwritten on the cover, and......Read the rest...