A collection of poems - for the PoetsPub's weekly challenge and contests for the year 2020. Also includes poems written for the random prompts given by PoetsPub.
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Sillage : /siːˈjɑːʒ/ (noun - F...
One drop that has saved a million lives, has almost Eradicated crippling disease Polio.
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Written for Week 17 (April 26, 2020) where we had to write a poem about a famous historic invention. My pick was polio (though the word invention automatically bring a 'device' to mind)
In 1955, when Jonas Salk finds a way to prevent polio, there were 28,985 global cases; by 2017, the number drops to 22.
