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"firemen" poems
School days in winter Were such fun Without a care, When we were young. At recess we'd slide On ice, Build our forts, Duck and fight. The firemen Beneath starlight, Would flood our schoolyard, Whet appetites For hockey games Between senior classes; We'd skate and shoot, Fall on our ***** Such joy and fun, And no one lost. The bell would sound, Then we'd toss Our wet socks On school room Rads. His and hers Like banners waving, Drying, hissing, Choking, aging. Impatiently we'd sit and wait, Do our math And conjugate; The clock's hands, Frozen, Watched from The wall, At last the lunchtime Bell would ring, And we'd get bundled Once again. Before heading home We're enticed To slide once more On hard, grey ice.
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC
Winter School Days
People pass by me, from all every direction even in winter snow. From exhausted firemen, expectant mothers, forgotten children, marathon sprinters. Even grumbling men carrying heavy, ancient computer printers. Each have their share and take their turn on me, the local sheltered, secluded seat. Even if only for a deep breath and a break or a little body heat. Bags and books, all sorts of things have been dropped or left on me, proposals have even happened here, you name it. If you don't believe it, come see for yourself and frame it.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 1:50 PM UTC
The bus stop
it was the moon that fell through. a lump of gray astronaut pale acne-blasted, an orphan of the dome, floating in a pond face down; gasping... green brass minnows surge through diatoms that have no word for moon; a legion of blind unicorn gall stones - invisible to naked eyes; uncountable geometries horde the dark waters they cannot disprove or disobey. large mouth bass inhale calcium polygons they have never met; that have no word for large mouth bass - that hasn't always been unknown as september is meaningless now, even more so, the meaning is less, without the moon... so the last tide is false. a satellite has lost it's grip and displaced a placid jewel of ice cold pause. in the backwoods of these. words. a. moon. is. breathing. in. a. void. teeming. with. ancient. life. it is a void, unfamiliar to a native of heaven. this void used to rise and fall in obedience to the wax and wane. in accord with her orbit. but now it burns the ocean of serenity with irony's forge. pounding the stainless steel of unfathomable loss; even the dross sustains a shape of things to come undone - when the hammer falls and the blacksmith is a poet born to ****** fables from mayflies. a natural. the hammer was in the hand before the moon gained a face or an ocean to adore it. it was there, ticking like a season, burgeoning with locusts - holding off the mob; the moon was long ago, slipping off the roof - long before firemen met lightning. the tide was a pious fool. the measure was not the span of the impending verse, but the hour of it's callous beauty, assembled. a lunacy, stripped of all moons. and only the sun remaining - to behold the uncanny descent of a faithful, vestigial goddess. a yellow throne. a yellow eye. and the sun's first chill... as wave after wave of syllables sum succulent sorrows - savoring sacred symmetries, asymmetrically... summoning - super luminary strawberry switchblades, saving sanity for questions with question marks. this poem fell through. a lung collapsed or not. and the moon is at the bottom of my heart.
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Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 11:17 AM UTC
Invention In Lower Case
it was the moon that fell through. a lump of gray astronaut pale acne-blasted, an orphan of the dome, floating in a pond face down; gasping... green brass minnows surge through diatoms that have no word for moon; a legion of blind unicorn gall stones - invisible to naked eyes; uncountable geometries horde the dark waters they cannot disprove or disobey. large mouth bass inhale calcium polygons they have never met; that have no word for large mouth bass - that hasn't always been unknown as september is meaningless now, even more so, the meaning is less, without the moon... so the last tide is false. a satellite has lost it's grip and displaced a placid jewel of ice cold pause. in the backwoods of these. words. a. moon. is. breathing. in. a. void. teeming. with. ancient. life. it is a void, unfamiliar to a native of heaven. this void used to rise and fall in obedience to the wax and wane. in accord with her orbit. but now it burns the ocean of serenity with irony's forge. pounding the stainless steel of unfathomable loss; even the dross sustains a shape of things to come undone - when the hammer falls and the blacksmith is a poet born to ****** fables from mayflies. a natural. the hammer was in the hand before the moon gained a face or an ocean to adore it. it was there, ticking like a season, burgeoning with locusts - holding off the mob; the moon was long ago, slipping off the roof - long before firemen met lightning. the tide was a pious fool. the measure was not the span of the impending verse, but the hour of it's callous beauty, assembled. a lunacy, stripped of all moons. and only the sun remaining - to behold the uncanny descent of a faithful, vestigial goddess. a yellow throne. a yellow eye. and the sun's first chill... as wave after wave of syllables sum succulent sorrows - savoring sacred symmetries, asymmetrically... summoning - super luminary strawberry switchblades, saving sanity for questions with question marks. this poem fell through. a lung collapsed or not. and the moon is at the bottom of my heart.
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I lit a candle today Thought about how the fire is enclosed and has to stay How the days must be long Having to stay small, not being able to grow strong It must loathe me It longs to be free It's holding in all its emotion, it's turning blue Then I blew It screamed no, but the deed was done Or was it? They both finally get to grin They leave nothing but destruction But yet we still light the candle like it is our everyday instruction Me and my family are gone The ambulance arrives at the crack of dawn As the firemen puts out the last sliver of fire The candle knows it will be back, and it knows many will admire Many will smell its aroma, and think it sweet It doesn't want to please you, it wants to beat The fire is its right hand man The fire is its number one fan
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Jun 29, 2013
Jun 29, 2013 at 6:52 PM UTC
Candle
Father Mychal Judge bent down to the woman on the floor. His right hand made the cross in sign like oft he had before. Above him the North Tower Burned like South Tower just next door. The chaplain of the firemen, Mychal was a Catholic priest. Born and bred in Brooklyn, He was no stranger to these streets. When he heard word about the planes, his safety he ignored.. He had to go be with his boys His trust was in the Lord. The people in the towers had the choice to burn or fly. So many that day took the plunge preferring not to fry. The raging fires melted steel. South Tower started to collapse The Bravest in her stairwells never heard recall perhaps. “Sweet Jesus, Make this end now! ” Some heard  Father Mychal cry. Debris from the South Tower Like a scythe came flying by. It was blunt force trauma to the head laid Father Mychal low. His friends removed his body, before North tower , too, would go. Thousands passed that terrible day; the mighty and the small. When responders came with body bags Mychal was first of all. Zero Zero Zero One A strange number for a Priest, who rushed in where many others fled, May now he rest in Peace.
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Nov 19, 2011
Nov 19, 2011 at 6:43 PM UTC
First Fruits, a poem of 9-11
it was the moon that fell through. a lump of gray astronaut pale acne-blasted, an orphan of the dome, floating in a pond face down; gasping... green brass minnows surge through diatoms that have no word for moon; a legion of blind unicorn gall stones - invisible to naked eyes; uncountable geometries horde the dark waters they cannot disprove or disobey. large mouth bass inhale calcium polygons they have never met; that have no word for large mouth bass - that hasn't always been unknown as september is meaningless now, even more so, the meaning is less, without the moon... so the last tide is false. a satellite has lost it's grip and displaced a placid jewel of ice cold pause. in the backwoods of these. words. a. moon. is. breathing. in. a. void. teeming. with. ancient. life. it is a void, unfamiliar to a native of heaven. this void used to rise and fall in obedience to the wax and wane. in accord with her orbit. but now it burns the ocean of serenity with irony's forge. pounding the stainless steel of unfathomable loss; even the dross sustains a shape of things to come undone - when the hammer falls and the blacksmith is a poet born to ****** fables from mayflies. a natural. the hammer was in the hand before the moon gained a face or an ocean to adore it. it was there, ticking like a season, burgeoning with locusts - holding off the mob; the moon was long ago, slipping off the roof - long before firemen met lightning. the tide was a pious fool. the measure was not the span of the impending verse, but the hour of it's callous beauty, assembled. a lunacy, stripped of all moons. and only the sun remaining - to behold the uncanny descent of a faithful, vestigial goddess. a yellow throne. a yellow eye. and the sun's first chill... as wave after wave of syllables sum succulent sorrows - savoring sacred symmetries, asymmetrically... summoning - super luminary strawberry switchblades, saving sanity for questions with question marks. this poem fell through. a lung collapsed or not. and the moon is at the bottom of my heart.
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Feb 12, 2012
Feb 12, 2012 at 11:07 AM UTC
invention in lower case
it was the moon that fell through. a lump of gray astronaut pale acne-blasted, an orphan of the dome, floating in a pond face down; gasping... green brass minnows surge through diatoms that have no word for moon; a legion of blind unicorn gall stones - invisible to naked eyes; uncountable geometries horde the dark waters they cannot disprove or disobey. large mouth bass inhale calcium polygons they have never met; that have no word for large mouth bass - that hasn't always been unknown as september is meaningless now, even more so, the meaning is less, without the moon... so the last tide is false. a satellite has lost it's grip and displaced a placid jewel of ice cold pause. in the backwoods of these. words. a. moon. is. breathing. in. a. void. teeming. with. ancient. life. it is a void, unfamiliar to a native of heaven. this void used to rise and fall in obedience to the wax and wane. in accord with her orbit. but now it burns the ocean of serenity with irony's forge. pounding the stainless steel of unfathomable loss; even the dross sustains a shape of things to come undone - when the hammer falls and the blacksmith is a poet born to ****** fables from mayflies. a natural. the hammer was in the hand before the moon gained a face or an ocean to adore it. it was there, ticking like a season, burgeoning with locusts - holding off the mob; the moon was long ago, slipping off the roof - long before firemen met lightning. the tide was a pious fool. the measure was not the span of the impending verse, but the hour of it's callous beauty, assembled. a lunacy, stripped of all moons. and only the sun remaining - to behold the uncanny descent of a faithful, vestigial goddess. a yellow throne. a yellow eye. and the sun's first chill... as wave after wave of syllables sum succulent sorrows - savoring sacred symmetries, asymmetrically... summoning - super luminary strawberry switchblades, saving sanity for questions with question marks. this poem fell through. a lung collapsed or not. and the moon is at the bottom of my heart.
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when i think of venice: i think of the branzino al forno we had at the restaurant; where we giggled over the young olive-skinned waiter. i think of another afternoon: we went to that wet market, me in my only dress and you in your brand new sandals; i had forgotten my film and you had purchased one too many langostines most of all when i remember venice: i remember the firemen racing down the canal in their speedboats, and on that day i asked you if the canal was deep enough for me to jump into because that day when i left the city, the siren blaring behind us, i wasn't thinking about anything but the summer's day heat and how: there was no escaping it all.
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Oct 20, 2013
Oct 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM UTC
in venice
At the Firemen's Club Dancing to the saxophone Beer puts the fire out
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 10:47 PM UTC
Hot Music
the world today truly has become the global village once predicted by McLuhan 50 years ago it took three decades longer than he had thought but now we have all real time developments at our fingertips Trump talks to Putin and Duterte & cetera and we know about it right afterward thanks to his tweets that land on our mobile phones suicide bombs exploding in Damascus Baghdad Gamboru Kabul hit us on our social media right away so does the news about a bus that fell into a gorge      all 65 passengers killed      somewhere on the globe or of the cat caught in a sewer pipe rescued by these brave firemen little of all of that adds to our understanding of the universe or might be relevant to our lives a bit more positive reporting is in order at best served as sensational as the bad news      that keeps us occupied yet more important for our daily lives than all this hype about the danger and the devastation that      possibly      or not may happen if soandso does suchandsuch at times I contemplate if it is better to be out of touch and not to care about the news so very much
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Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 4:32 PM UTC
global village news
i. a father doing sit-ups on the uncut lawn of his neighbor. the father’s two children pushing a broken thing past him. the shop the children map from the inside. its keeper who is also the neighbor and knew their mother. ii. the grace of a thing could be a frog pushing off. I am alternately sad in the legs, the body, and the head. my father regards the misshapen wheel of our manmade pond- bangs on himself and begins to float. iii. small one she wins a rubber thing at a firemen’s ball. some flying creature her grandfather becomes. his top teeth tremble like worried pilots in a silent plane weighted with unknowable freight.
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Jul 3, 2012
Jul 3, 2012 at 2:07 AM UTC
factual things
Going home from visiting a friend I have walking this same path Walked this way, countless times Up a slight hill of a lonely street To a desolate alley in summer darkness But I need to take a call of nature So I start to relieve myself To **** against a unyielding wall And I am blind to those behind me Two youths of eighteen or nineteen I feel the liquid pouring down my leg Then in seconds it is a ball of flame My left leg, burning in pain, agony I turn and they are running and laughing Leaving me alone and I feel the skin burn I kick the right shoe off my foot And intend to take off these burning Jeans But the foot is a ball of orange flame The liquid had not travelling down the leg It had gone into my shoe, burning from inside I am shaking, in my shorts in night summer heat I try kicking this fire out against the wall The agony has taken my mind, insanity takes the pain Unknowing, three toes snap as I continue to kick But the fire burns on, with the smell of burning flesh No one is there to help me, I only want to sleep Concrete steps keep me from reaching safety From this alley up to the waiting maisonettes So I hold the rail, and force myself to climb up And still the left leg burns and the pain returns in fury I make it and there is someone in the kitchen The first maisonette that stands on the corner He sees me and he sees the flames that hurt me He looks at me in horror, and then there is screaming The screaming is coming from me, I can not stop The man comes out with a bowl of water He throws it over the burning foot and I pass out I awake and there is a neighbour holding me I see people all around me and I try to remember The pain and memory come rushing back Firemen are there now, hosing my leg with water I hear a crackling and realise it is the leg The screaming starts again, and it never stops Coming deep inside of me, for this madness to end And again darkness takes me as my mind shuts off I am in an Ambulance, but I do not feel safe They are out there and could still come for me Why did they do this? What did I do? I never even knew who they were And the horror etches deep into my head That was years ago, and I still carry the scars The leg was saved, full thickness burn Skin grafts rebuilt it, but it still breaks down Three toes amputated, the big toe and ones next Yes it still haunts me now and it always will
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Mar 31, 2010
Mar 31, 2010 at 3:24 AM UTC
Burning Memory
Going home from visiting a friend I have walking this same path Walked this way, countless times Up a slight hill of a lonely street To a desolate alley in summer darkness But I need to take a call of nature So I start to relieve myself To **** against a unyielding wall And I am blind to those behind me Two youths of eighteen or nineteen I feel the liquid pouring down my leg Then in seconds it is a ball of flame My left leg, burning in pain, agony I turn and they are running and laughing Leaving me alone and I feel the skin burn I kick the right shoe off my foot And intend to take off these burning Jeans But the foot is a ball of orange flame The liquid had not travelling down the leg It had gone into my shoe, burning from inside I am shaking, in my shorts in night summer heat I try kicking this fire out against the wall The agony has taken my mind, insanity takes the pain Unknowing, three toes snap as I continue to kick But the fire burns on, with the smell of burning flesh No one is there to help me, I only want to sleep Concrete steps keep me from reaching safety From this alley up to the waiting maisonettes So I hold the rail, and force myself to climb up And still the left leg burns and the pain returns in fury I make it and there is someone in the kitchen The first maisonette that stands on the corner He sees me and he sees the flames that hurt me He looks at me in horror, and then there is screaming The screaming is coming from me, I can not stop The man comes out with a bowl of water He throws it over the burning foot and I pass out I awake and there is a neighbour holding me I see people all around me and I try to remember The pain and memory come rushing back Firemen are there now, hosing my leg with water I hear a crackling and realise it is the leg The screaming starts again, and it never stops Coming deep inside of me, for this madness to end And again darkness takes me as my mind shuts off I am in an Ambulance, but I do not feel safe They are out there and could still come for me Why did they do this? What did I do? I never even knew who they were And the horror etches deep into my head That was years ago, and I still carry the scars The leg was saved, full thickness burn Skin grafts rebuilt it, but it still breaks down Three toes amputated, the big toe and ones next Yes it still haunts me now and it always will
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary…. When books are replaced with Kindles and Nooks, and content resides on the cloud. It is relatively easy to delete certain works at the whim of the haughty and proud. If libraries falter, wither and die The poor will lose access to the printed word. Ten percent of the market will quickly dry up and the price of a book gets absurd. Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The pleasure we had in turning each page as our minds raced ahead to the end. Short battery life never hindered our quest when **** Jane and Spot were our friends. A storm on the Sun bringing ionized rays and digital files are undone. and force us to search yellow crumbling pages for rumors of Kipling and Donne. Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. Was Bradbury right? Should we all memorize the words born of our favorite pen? Imagine reciting Shakespeare’s Hamlet by heart so that silence won’t win in the end.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 7:49 AM UTC
Fahrenheit 451
returning from a night outbusting for a peedescretion of a grave yarddark cold cemetry bloddwyn used her pantiesmegan used a wreathto wipe away the dripperssighing with relief early sunday morningworried husbands chatmy bloddwyn had no pants on,my megans worse than that she had a card stuck up her bumand a white carnationsaying....always be remembered....from the firemen down the station
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Feb 27, 2010
Feb 27, 2010 at 1:25 PM UTC
bloddwyn and megan
When the city lights are too bright Does it leave any room for the sun to rise? Feed your fields from the fluorescent lamp. I sit at my desk, do only as I’m told. The teachers drone And it would seem I have no future Because I take interest in nothing I don’t like to read and math is just too hard. My mind moves too quick for my eyes, for my fingers to move across the lines of text, but my lips and hands say anything and everything that needs to be said. I don’t know that knowledge they preach Pick up your pencils, read the prompt quickly but carefully, and you may begin. Tell me of you future What are your dreams Dream big! The sky is the limit but remember the sky is only just above your head... You may grow you may flourish, be all that you can be but know that you can only be you and you are not so big so tall so brilliant as those that walk above you. I want to be a firemen, an astronaut, a police officer, and a cowboy. She wants to be a nurse, a weather reporter, a vet, and a gold medalist. But they say these are a fools dreams. That I can only go as far as my legs will stretch and will never make it past the threshold of achievable, and my hands can only hold onto what my fingers are long enough to wrap around. There are shackles in that school. They teach me that I can do anything and everything that my heart desires... As long as I desire what they’ve placed in front of me. Pay no mind to that other shade of green. Follow suit, fall in line Put your pencils down Your time is up Hand your papers to the person sitting in front of you and remain silent for the remainder of the class.
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Mar 24, 2013
Mar 24, 2013 at 4:46 AM UTC
The Curriculum is Wack
When the city lights are too bright Does it leave any room for the sun to rise? Feed your fields from the fluorescent lamp. I sit at my desk, do only as I’m told. The teachers drone And it would seem I have no future Because I take interest in nothing I don’t like to read and math is just too hard. My mind moves too quick for my eyes, for my fingers to move across the lines of text, but my lips and hands say anything and everything that needs to be said. I don’t know that knowledge they preach Pick up your pencils, read the prompt quickly but carefully, and you may begin. Tell me of you future What are your dreams Dream big! The sky is the limit but remember the sky is only just above your head... You may grow you may flourish, be all that you can be but know that you can only be you and you are not so big so tall so brilliant as those that walk above you. I want to be a firemen, an astronaut, a police officer, and a cowboy. She wants to be a nurse, a weather reporter, a vet, and a gold medalist. But they say these are a fools dreams. That I can only go as far as my legs will stretch and will never make it past the threshold of achievable, and my hands can only hold onto what my fingers are long enough to wrap around. There are shackles in that school. They teach me that I can do anything and everything that my heart desires... As long as I desire what they’ve placed in front of me. Pay no mind to that other shade of green. Follow suit, fall in line Put your pencils down Your time is up Hand your papers to the person sitting in front of you and remain silent for the remainder of the class.
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A patch-work roof burns underneath the sallow-white chill of a mid-winter moon. Nearby a lake suffocates in ice; an astronaut has lost his helmet. Blood rushes to the eyes and tongue as a ragged derelict loses his balance. He topples into a dumpster; the last pear drifts from the tree. The firemen are enclosed in smoke. One froze at the door, the others melt into the haze; a hand slips below quicksand. The moon is doing all it can. The spaceman is floating away. The *** is asleep. The roof is having the time of its life and the pear grows into another pear-tree.
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 2:36 AM UTC
Something Town
"my day will be different today" she declares, when she sees herself hidden in in a passing spending and breaking broken drive-by scribbled-pretend, urgent poem, stumbled upon by a heavenly calculated accident gladdened, saddened. now dressed to the nines, that piece of me, wherever it be, the parade ground, where the words and letters assemble, where the firemen train, adding logs, love, accursed ego, to the hearth, steady on burning, to practice putting out the ohms and uh-uh's of electrical resistance that your response, a shiny knife of a self-reflecting observation has...ho ** ** sparkling stabbing mirror this one, a simple script, a written pyramid, built by an Israelite, who by command, perforce mustn't but does write prophecies that may or may not come to being, poem pyramids, surely none will not survive Darius's desert sandstorms ravaging kisses of time's forgetting but your simple complementation fits inside quite nicely, for its simplicity, because it is a provocation stabbing piercing  a self-questioning, of why to write I need pen paper and ink, and don't forget those stupid teardrops in the clear vial the Zola j'accuse of every poet, even the gone-ones, looking down at highest bar in poetry! did I really do that? even for a brief moment, a nanosecond, me words modify the entire continental shelf that another writer occupies, change its axis, the rate of spin, the angle of another's solitary human's day nah   all i did was read (all) her poetry, imaging imaginng a life so foreign, putting me inside of thee, and let my stubs, the remains of worn fingers do the rest so I guess it could be true what you wrote, but about me "my day will be different today" and why I practice this wonderfully ridiculous craft, cause the pay is so **** good 10:36am
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Sep 30, 2017
Sep 30, 2017 at 10:56 AM UTC
my day will be different today
"my day will be different today" she declares, when she sees herself hidden in in a passing spending and breaking broken drive-by scribbled-pretend, urgent poem, stumbled upon by a heavenly calculated accident gladdened, saddened. now dressed to the nines, that piece of me, wherever it be, the parade ground, where the words and letters assemble, where the firemen train, adding logs, love, accursed ego, to the hearth, steady on burning, to practice putting out the ohms and uh-uh's of electrical resistance that your response, a shiny knife of a self-reflecting observation has...ho ** ** sparkling stabbing mirror this one, a simple script, a written pyramid, built by an Israelite, who by command, perforce mustn't but does write prophecies that may or may not come to being, poem pyramids, surely none will not survive Darius's desert sandstorms ravaging kisses of time's forgetting but your simple complementation fits inside quite nicely, for its simplicity, because it is a provocation stabbing piercing  a self-questioning, of why to write I need pen paper and ink, and don't forget those stupid teardrops in the clear vial the Zola j'accuse of every poet, even the gone-ones, looking down at highest bar in poetry! did I really do that? even for a brief moment, a nanosecond, me words modify the entire continental shelf that another writer occupies, change its axis, the rate of spin, the angle of another's solitary human's day nah   all i did was read (all) her poetry, imaging imaginng a life so foreign, putting me inside of thee, and let my stubs, the remains of worn fingers do the rest so I guess it could be true what you wrote, but about me "my day will be different today" and why I practice this wonderfully ridiculous craft, cause the pay is so **** good 10:36am
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(3/9/12) So many uniforms worn in this life, and inside them You’ll find your loved ones -your soul mate Son , daughter, husband , or wife. Firemen , policemen , nurses , and military too They all have a job to do. And as you look at them with pride You thank god they’re by your side. The uniform does not make the person But the person makes the uniform. Because in it they pour the heart and soul And it’s there where they belong. The firemen and women who run into a burning house The cop who goes into the line of fire The nurse who held their hand on you to stop the bleeding And of course the military soldier Who protects our country day and night And will give up their lives in a fight. Yet we do not stop and say: “Thank you for all that you do I am very proud to know you.” Their uniforms are just their shells And at times they go thru hell. But there is a person who never wore a uniform But created all of them who wear it. He is all these people rolled into one He is “GODS SON”. He made these uniforms so that we can see their worth And it was given to them from their birth. So many uniforms to show what we do But it doesn’t show the inner you. This uniform is seen only by god It is called the human heart. This uniform can not be replaced by anything on this earth For it was given by god at our birth. We can be as beautiful or as vicious As any animal on this earth, or as Soft and sensitive as the most delicate flower This is given to us from the lords powers. Let us rejoice in what he has given And make this life “ worth living”. © L.Rams
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Mar 11, 2012
Mar 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM UTC
uniforms
(3/9/12) So many uniforms worn in this life, and inside them You’ll find your loved ones -your soul mate Son , daughter, husband , or wife. Firemen , policemen , nurses , and military too They all have a job to do. And as you look at them with pride You thank god they’re by your side. The uniform does not make the person But the person makes the uniform. Because in it they pour the heart and soul And it’s there where they belong. The firemen and women who run into a burning house The cop who goes into the line of fire The nurse who held their hand on you to stop the bleeding And of course the military soldier Who protects our country day and night And will give up their lives in a fight. Yet we do not stop and say: “Thank you for all that you do I am very proud to know you.” Their uniforms are just their shells And at times they go thru hell. But there is a person who never wore a uniform But created all of them who wear it. He is all these people rolled into one He is “GODS SON”. He made these uniforms so that we can see their worth And it was given to them from their birth. So many uniforms to show what we do But it doesn’t show the inner you. This uniform is seen only by god It is called the human heart. This uniform can not be replaced by anything on this earth For it was given by god at our birth. We can be as beautiful or as vicious As any animal on this earth, or as Soft and sensitive as the most delicate flower This is given to us from the lords powers. Let us rejoice in what he has given And make this life “ worth living”. © L.Rams
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sirens blare and shutters close, we sit calmly in our humble abode until we smell the smell I’ve smelled a thousand times and going strong. we joke and skip idly around the stairs in a fashionably orderly manner, like in an empty amusement park. “the fire smells good”, says someone, and i nearly choke at the absurdity, but i have to agree, it smells like nostalgia, the plumes of charred plastic filaments, remnants of 3d printers bringing me back to better days. as the chaos rolls along in the background, we order truffle pasta from the vending machine, giggle at the firemen who lost their way and watch the sorry-excuse of a smoke trailing away into the blindingly blue sky as the exhausted sirens blare once again.
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Mar 19, 2024
Mar 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM UTC
char
Sometimes I get sad like REALLY sad Actually not just sometimes but all the time my chest would feel like an empty grave screaming for it’s tenant. The gaping hole that longs for someone to cradle into the night A lover longing for it’s beloved. I would have thoughts of the things I have lost like a tree wondering where it’s leaves have gone in the fall. I have memories and feelings that I have flung to the back of my head like ***** laundry that just waits for me to deal with it. I know one day I will have to pick them up and shove them into the washing machine but here I am just ignoring it. I am running out of clean clothes to wear and have a mountain of ***** clothes to face I have sorrows that I have coated in caramel like candied apples thinking that they’d be sweet but they still taste so bitter. My heart was burning house filled with people dancing in it The people have grown tired have left and the firemen have arrived. Now it nothing but a soggy dance floor with a shattered disco ball. A sun that has exploded and have become a super nova reminiscing what it once was and mourning what it will never be. I hope day I won’t feel as much sad that one day I will have enough motivation to face that mountain of ***** clothes. I hope that one day I will be brave enough to be happy. But till then I hope y’all keep me company. Cause sometimes, most of the time One of the main reasons I sad is because I am lonely.
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 4:17 PM UTC
I get sad sometimes...
. Father Mychal Judge bent down to the woman on the floor. His right hand made the cross in sign like oft he had before. Above him the North Tower Burned like South Tower just next door. The chaplain of the firemen, Mychal was a Catholic priest. Born and bred in Brooklyn, He was no stranger to these streets. When he heard word about the planes, his safety he ignored.. He had to go be with his boys His trust was in the Lord. The people in the towers had the choice to burn or fly. So many that day took the plunge preferring not to fry. The raging fires melted steel. South Tower started to collapse The Bravest in her stairwells never heard recall perhaps. “Sweet Jesus, Make this end now!” Some heard Father Mychal cry. As Debris from the South Tower Like a scythe came flying by. It was blunt force trauma to the head laid Father Mychal low. His friends removed his body before North tower, too, would go. Thousands passed that terrible day; the mighty and the small. When responders came with body bags Mychal was first of all. Zero Zero Zero One A strange number for a Priest, who rushed where Angels feared to tread, not fearful in the least
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Dec 10, 2011
Dec 10, 2011 at 8:43 PM UTC
Victim 0001, a poem of 9/11
One does not question the holy This sick sacrament of self-sacrifice is not holy Dark filthy ****** mess of holy man Thorny fool This is not holy *** and sweat Dripping wet With physical pleasure Understanding Educational leisure That is better than holy Compassion and wisdom Built from shared experience Creating empathy Like blood pumping vessels This is better than holy Patience for others And a little for myself Intolerance for the arrogance of war This is better than holy Robed men and camouflaged faked heroes Petulant posers and wealthy heirs Are not the high end holy **** that we should smoke Scholars and philosophers Scientists and healers Teachers and firemen They are heroes In reality the holy Is just some mystic ******** Fake flesh and blood Ritz crackers and grape juice Some cryptic fascist leftover symbolism To cow the masses in uneducated awe **** that holy ****
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 11:23 AM UTC
*** Is Holy
We all grow. Your closest friends seem to be leaving. Yes we were kids I know, We could be what we were pretending. Like astronauts, presidents, super heroes, firemen. Those were simple days When we were kids just playing games. But now... Gold chains glow. For some reason I’m still dreaming. All the kids I know Are needing something to believe in. Money, drugs, *** poverty, Liquor stores, and partying. If this isn’t the real world is this all just still a game? And now... Time moves slow. It seems like I was only dreaming. We’re not the kids I know. It’s really hard to keep believing in Truth, love, and honesty. So drop the chains, let’s sail these seas. We could write stories about what we have failed to be.
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Dec 25, 2014
Dec 25, 2014 at 11:38 PM UTC
Failed To Be.
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary…. When books are replaced with Kindles and Nooks, and content resides on the cloud, It is relatively easy to delete certain works at the whim of the haughty and proud. If libraries falter, wither and die The poor will lose the printed word. Ten percent of the market will quickly dry up and the price of a book gets absurd. Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The pleasure we had in turning each page as our minds raced ahead to the end. Short battery life never hindered our quest when **** Jane and Spot were our friends. A storm on the Sun bringing ionized rays and digital files are undone. and force us to search yellow crumbling pages for rumors of Kipling and Donne. Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. Was Bradbury right? Should we all memorize the words born of our favorite pen? Imagine reciting Shakespeare’s Hamlet by heart so that silence won’t win in the end.
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Jun 6, 2012
Jun 6, 2012 at 3:38 PM UTC
Fahrenheit 451 report in honor of Ray Bradbury R.I.P.
I'm melting Icicles crashing snow fashioned animals melting from beneath melting this ice carousel ******* breaking cant you hear hear me I shall hibernate in the eyes of winter. Torpor in the wake of fall. Crucify the image i made of you Mount corpus delecti Ensconce The carcass on my ceiling wall I’m reminded now of that creature when i sleep or i wake I need this stone of guilt wound around my vertebrae So it hangs so it hangs so it sways with the weather vane So it hangs so it hangs So it slowly brings feelings again We need this Contrition On the roof of our eyelids To the struts of our mouth guilt through your body infest Every nook and cranny I crush all these blown glass animals. They all try and creep to my brain hiding in the amygdala Take shards of them Ingest them Carve your likeness in my arms No beat can hit me hard enough No stone breaking bones could slough How this carnival creature menagerie Has destroyed all my self conscious stockpile Esteem was a book that sold millions of copies and mine burnt up The firemen. Came and disintegrate the pages in a pile a mass grave of individual triumph Carousels destroy childhood Holding hands destroys manhood Just when you think you can finally stomach the ride Those fingers course up your arm down your throat and pull out your insides
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Mar 18, 2013
Mar 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM UTC
In the Pupil of Winter, In the Iris of Fall
In my minds geography The towers still stand tall. They rise up from their common grave And overawe the shore Above the clouds the diners feast At windows on the World as swarms of chefs and waiters hang on their every word In my mind's eye, no bells need toll As mourners read a name. No firemen in bunker gear race up the stairs in vain. With eyes wide closed Deny, deny, the fast approaching planes Deny the bodies in the street Deny the dust and flames But they are gone and you are gone And never will I hear Your soft and **** gentle voice Or hold your body near Late at night near Trinity among the weathered stones Do I hear the weeping of lost souls -Or is it just the wind 's low moan?
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 9:50 AM UTC
Towers