Best 911 Poems

The falling man, one photograph captured in time
       An unforgettable image, imprinted on this mind
        He represents us all, weather we like it or not
         His faith did not kill him, destiny was his...

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You walk through the metal detector 
You look at me with a deep seated scorn
You loath that I made you remove your stuff
You had to take off your shoes belt and jewelry
You’re thinking “I’m no criminal or terrorist so why me”

I am only doing the job the government requires of me
I am not the reason...

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To *key3 

How bad can it get, don't ask me that question 
I'm on the 97th floor terrified, 
hanging from a window, gasping for breath
You want to know, 
if I put faith to the test 

On the phone to my wife, saying I love you please never forget 
Bodies burst in the street below me,...

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I often sit and wonder why 
People do the things they do 
I am thinking of a day ten years ago 
When heaven's population grew. 
I can remember it like it were yesterday 
For when i heard about it I cried 
On September 11 2001 
So many of our heroes died. 
Our country who has...

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someone stole my heart
                                      ok I left it unlocked
         ...

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Cuddled in complacency
Assuring herself nothing will change
She is content

Personified oak
Wrapped in warm bark
Warm reassuring branches

Perfect husband
Happy children
Wonderful life

911 happens
To her
Tearing her limb from limb...

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Within The Trenches

911 Dispatcher Tribute

Nine one one, What's your emergency? Keeps replaying in her head.
When she lays down at night and she can't sleep instead.
Her mind keeps going backwards to when her heart began it's fall.
Memories of the other end the night she got the call.

She could hear a woman screaming, was it a husband...

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September eleven, two-thousand-one-
dark age of homeland terror had begun.
If only I could change this horrid past-
alleviate deep pain from grief at last.

Three thousand souls were lost forever, then;
three hundred forty-three were brave firemen,
so many whom I'd come to know before,
when they'd stop by our fire equipment store.

Our county is just sixty miles away
from New York...

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Nine Eleven—a dark day lives of many workers were stolen away
Individuals worked all night; stayed; without seeing the light of day
Nose to the grindstone below floor level they labored productively
Effectively moving papers, stacks, racks, speedily and so selectively

Encouraged basement overtime; more taxes paid; they worked away
Loyal workers; dedicated to the cause; laziness to them—not a...

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High
                                                  too far
   ...

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DIALING 911

towering building,   dressed   in pinstriped suit,
healthy, quietly      dying.     flying without web,
without        wings.         an abnormal workday,
smokes in the        clouds. ...

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Look after Joe our mother said
We promised we would do it
She needed a break from all of us
And went out of town for a visit.

It was the spring of '93
The blizzard had ruined my place
So Sam was helping clean up my yard
Little did we know
We'd soon be red in the face!

I went down to check...

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********Note:**********
This is a poem in tribute to Doctor Gearldine Stott at the Medical Center, Hampton, VA and her Nurse Hatton who has alway's stood behind me in my time of need....Also, my friend Steve, who is a funny and delightful guy!



When I was lost and alone
At the Veteran's Administration
Hospital,
Not too far from home
I needed a...

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Poem 9/11

Believe me,
Just watching my TV
News Flash!! Skyjack! 
New York City Centre,Jet Crash. 
Check that.
News Call,Broadcast stall. 
Drop the headlines!! 
This is the new line 
Look up on the Skyline   
Flash,Bash,Crash 
Right on the building top. 
Biff Baff Heart attack, 
On another line 
Pentagon now a X a gone 
Another plane drop. 
Whats...

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Today I prayed to God and cried.
Thousands of innocent people have died,
by a senseless heinous act,
thats become an international fact.

Our country was violated by evil men,
who thought they had a reason to sin
against our people and our pride,
to die as cowards by our side.

Our airplanes crashed like plastic toys,
creating mass destruction and noise.
The towers ,tall,...

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