Best Firefighter Poems

Beneath embered brands of burning roof,
The firefighter waits.
His mask is on; he’s donned his gloves, 
Ready to enter the fiery state.
Once again to battle beast,
Whose...

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The Guardian Angels in our life
Are those who chose to serve
Those who sit there waiting
What’s around the next curve

Men and Women who have dedicated
Their very...

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A little girl I stand, awakened early morning hour.
The sound of shuffles preparing, for coffee one will scour.

Muffled voice all too familiar, for only one...

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Grandma was a firefighter woman
For most of the 1960s--
When she was already in her sixties
You see, around about 1961
A brush fire almost burned down	
Kanarraville—that little...

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Kinshala
 
    I am scared
not of you, but  my extra sensory
perception on my internal
dialogue 
      ...

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The hutch 
like everything else in this house is
crooked.  A slanting hardwood floor 
and the burnished ends 
of an ancient table. 

An ever rounding...

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It is 3:00 a.m. on an icy cold winter morning.
A piercing alarm shatters the silence at the station, and
he is sped away on a flashing...

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I know there are heroes like a firefighter,
      the police, real life heroic people, a soldier;
but my hero right now...

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I’ve been having nightmares every
night.
They seem so real and It’s extremely 
hot and I feel trapped and I can't 
breathe. 
But each time my torcher...

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You endured the fire before the fire,
burning doubt thinking you wouldn't pass the test.
The sweltering summer days carrying heavy hoses,
that some of you firewomen thought...

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people's lives would be less chaotic and probably more sane
if on the road of life they would just stay in their lane
one shouldn't try to...

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Every Child Has a Dream…

They want to be a “grown up”…
They want to get married like mommy and daddy did…
Become a “mommy” or “daddy” as...

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A fire started on the two-story house occupied by five people
As smoke poured from an upstairs bedroom of the couple
Emergency officials responded in time, all...

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These long sleepless nights
Waiting to hear
That hot red dragon so near

No way to know
While you fight its fury
I lay here and worry

It devours acres by...

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There was a firefighter named VanHoof
Who believed he was fireproof.
One day pride got the better of him
He acted when his chances were slim.
Thus in an...

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