The Great Catching Away part nine
...Raymond Miles heard what sounded like a super sonic boom in the air while he
eye witnessed jet airliners fall to the ground on the freeway. His family watched
cars piling up on the freeway totally...
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Categories:
airliners, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Bottom of the Barrel
...Imagine a standard barrel of crude oil – 42 gallons.
The barrel unit of measure dates back to 1859
When Pennsylvania oil wells were first drilled
And the wooden ‘tierce’ wine cask
Holding 42 gall...
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Categories:
airliners, environment,
Form: Didactic
Ultralights
...low
flying
ultralights
endanger geese,
threaten airliners,
and aggravate people
with incessant humming noise
which can bring on migraine headaches,
the wealthy man's least preferred ailment.
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Categories:
airliners, flying, sick,
Form: Nonet
Twenty Years of Terror
...I was not going to publish this until the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist events that have changed the USA and its place in the World. I began and finished writing it this mornin...
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Categories:
airliners, conflict, corruption, courage, memory,
Form: Couplet
Nineteen Years Ago
...Nineteen Years Ago
By Franklin Price
09/11/2020
Nineteen years ago today, the tall twin towers fell.
Hijacked airliners hit them and turned them into hell.
High above Manhattan streets fires b...
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Categories:
airliners, america, bereavement, conflict, history,
Form: Couplet
2028 -- Sounds Grate
...Life without airliners
return to a less traveled past
A mere delusion no more
Life without social media
unthinkable?
No idle chimera in cyber-war
But I would never betray you!
Winsto...
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Categories:
airliners, anxiety, betrayal, fate, future,
Form: Free verse
Eighteen Years Ago Tomorrow
...Eighteen Years Ago Tomorrow
By Franklin Price
9/10/2019
Eighteen years ago tomorrow
The great twin towers fell
Airliners crashed into them
Made many lives a living hell
Another flew to Was...
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Categories:
airliners, america, courage, history, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
The 737 Max
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Some tragic events have caused the Boeing company despair.
Two 737 Max airliners have come crashing down from the air.
In these instances, many innocent lives were lost.
They have hit th...
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Categories:
airliners, business, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Time
...WinterTime
By Franklon Price
12/21/2017
Winter time has come today,
In the Northern Hemisphere.
The North Pole always darkened
For old Santa and his deer.
The elves are in the workshop,
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Categories:
airliners, christmas, winter,
Form: Rhyme
The Future
...Predicting the future is an interesting possibility
So think of what things may for the world to see
Let's have a bash at what might be known
People will have implants for mobile phones
Publ...
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Categories:
airliners, fun, future,
Form: Free verse
Fifteen Years Ago Today
...Fifteen Years Ago Today
By Franklin Price
9/11/2016
Fifteen years ago today, the mighty towers fell
Turned into infernos in a New York burning hell
Airliners flown by terrorists, with passe...
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Categories:
airliners, anger, betrayal, courage, grief,
Form: Couplet
Queen of the Boneyard
...From a distance away,
I can spot a proud tail fin,
Standing upright among
A sea of dull metals.
As I approach, it’s evident that
Here rests the Queen.
The pinnacle of aviation.
The game-chang...
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Categories:
airliners, bird, flying, imagery, loss,
Form: Ode
The Cybernetic Lullaby, Part Ii
...I read on my laptop today--
automation is making us dumber,
ineffective, maybe even impotent.
Perhaps it's a conspiracy by that secret
society, the computer brotherhood.
(Do you really believe y...
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Categories:
airliners, analogy, computer, corruption, technology,
Form: Free verse
Sept 11 and Heaven
...as we commemorate the 10th anniversary of a day we'll always remember
over three thousand lives taken on the eleventh day of September
but for the grace of God it might have been me
to have been on...
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Categories:
airliners, death, faith, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Ode
Ghost of An Achievement
...In anger he conspires
creates havoc on his way down,
simply spoils one’s hair
when revealing one’s crown.
He aid’s Monday’s wash
with the strength of a kiss,
commands the clouds, rain,
many ...
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Categories:
airliners,
Form: Rhyme
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