Yet I Stand
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Where do I stand
When presented with a choice
Transported by a full force
That lands me in a false chance
Yet, I stand.
Breaking the shackles
That held me in my ankles
So tight like a bu...
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Categories:
typhoid, anger, confusion, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Hindsight 20-20
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When I was in high school,
I had a fall,
It was from a cycle,
but changed my all;
I had ligament tear
in my right foot,
Could not go to school, got
typhoid to boot;
Weak...
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Categories:
typhoid, 11th grade, memory,
Form: Quatrain
WHO ACTUALLY IS LIKE US
...Who actually is like us
The modern world you see today
Right before your eyes,
Who done this and who done that
Well you’re in for a wee surprise.
From the Bank of England to the Bank of France...
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Categories:
typhoid, appreciation, inspiration, motivation, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Three of Us
...We were small, innocence written all over..
Pulling plaits, dreaming of a new rover.
Crossed paths..when I picked my nose,
While you processed your identity of rose.
She lodged once with me, once...
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Categories:
typhoid, emotions, friendship love, high
Form: Ballad
Another Lifetime
...VERSE 1: January 1st 2023
I was on malaria and typhoid medicine
Like 2023 is this how you choose to begin
God is the greatest cause Jesus had got me healed
Life is a trip, I’m sitting at the back...
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Categories:
typhoid, anxiety, devotion, feelings, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Fleckfieber 1940 Typhoid Outbreak 1940
...Warsaw 1940 certain inhabitants designated
A health risk were ordered to strip naked
Had to shower to become clean this ploy
Caused public humiliation, and showed
Dominence there was also mass qu...
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Categories:
typhoid, age, analogy, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Verse
God Pty Ltd
...Ancient sinister fires dwell in the savage creator's eye,
Soon his fire starter will be coming for a second try,
Choosing to believe, that which cannot be seen cannot be rude,
A cloak and dagger G...
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Categories:
typhoid, 10th grade,
Form: ABC
Poets Wordplay
...Typhoid Harry
Scandemic Pandemic
Truthsaying Soothsayers
Interaction, satisfaction
Living Bill
Mood for thought
Reparations, separations
I’m not you, Babe
Heeler’s Moist
Swirl Cool
Tool...
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Categories:
typhoid, poetry, word play, words,
Form: Free verse
Vaccination
...Vaccination Chart
1.BCG at birth dose 0.05ml.
2.Hep B at birth dose 0.5ml.
3.OPV at birth dose 2 drops.
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4.06 weeks baby Hep B dose 0.5ml.
5.06 weeks baby DTP dose 0...
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Categories:
typhoid, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: List
God Pty Ltd
...Ancient sinister fires dwell in the savage creator's eye,
Soon his fire starter will be coming for a second try,
Choosing to believe, that which cannot be seen cannot be rude,
A cloak and dagger G...
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Categories:
typhoid, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
They Criminalized Corona
...They criminalized corona and censor your opinion,
They criminalized corona to take your rights away,
They criminalized corona to invade your privacy,
They criminalized corona to impose dr...
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Categories:
typhoid, anniversary, confusion, depression, discrimination,
Form: Alliteration
The Last Train, Part I
...On the canvas of a cold, grey, winter sky,
In large black letters above the Iron Gate,
Read the message: "Arbeit Macht Frei".
A shrewdly sinister, propagandist lie,
Designed to deceive all of our...
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Categories:
typhoid, allegory, allusion, analogy, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
I Hate Beginnings
...I hate beginnings, plenipotentiary prattle, use-
less sedimentary-sounds. A preface and first chap-
ter betwixt the suc-
culent kiss, the marvelous mystery unfolding.
wash your hands, bobblehea...
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Categories:
typhoid, books,
Form: Free verse
Loving Africa
...Africa is the extreme nirvana of the world
She gives us beauty in the form of beasts
And joyful children whom we see on no other continents
Lions, giraffes and hippopotamus to name a few
Africa...
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Categories:
typhoid, world,
Form: Free verse
Renee Vivien Translations
...Renee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories cr...
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Categories:
typhoid, analogy, image, imagery, love,
Form: Sonnet
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