Best Sept Poems

It was a day like every other day, sunny and warm they said
New Yorkers smiling and happy, looking for their daily bread
Taxis were darting here and there, planes flying everywhere
Children were going to school, parents laying down the rule.

Plans were made for later that day,
Meet...

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Seven Years Rachel*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Sept ans Rachel by T. Wignesan

For seven years Rachel remains sealed
By the kiss she received from Jacob
For seven years she keeps her eyelashes lowered
Under the impact of their unique encounter.

When he saw her on that one occasion
He was...

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Twisted matter within my mind,
Calling, screaming, struggling to be free.
It knows not what it has to find,
Or what it has to be.
Turned loose, it runs, a life it found.
To be a force of mind and thought,
Then to find it lost and bound 
To it with...

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The years have 
gone by, but it's 
still clear as day.

Recalling painful 
memories, brings 
tears down my 
face.

An act of terrorism 
took a hold on our 
way of life.

Eyewitness news,
while others paid 
with their lives.

Freedom isn't free,
were hated on by 
our enemies.

We're all people 
of flesh and blood. 

Killing each other 
with no remorse. 

How much more 
can we take, united 
as one we will...

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To the victims of 9/11
Whose souls are watching on from heaven
Know that your memory lives on
Forever, regardless how long you’ve been gone

As family and friends grow old
Their daily lives you still behold
As your spirit walks alongside, in silence
Hand in hand…always there for guidance

Your loved ones...

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Descend to join me now in Luna’s sept
Before the summer storm’s pale vision
Disturbs the bed of glory where you slept
And sighed at passing time’s derision!

Arise and sow your wonder over hills
Where free birds can outlast the wingless,
And grass unweaves so gently over rills
Whose timeless flow...

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Late Summer thunder,
Humid with a lovely breeze,
Past thoughts are now gone....

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for Mexico City after earthquake, 1985

It's almost total dark tonight, before 
a moon in our Green Valley. No buildings
collapsed. I'm just walking my dog—

and I'm back there. Storefront spilling
shattered glass can't glitter in so little light.
Streetlamps out. Department store.

I aim a flash-beam—human figure
sprawled inside the...

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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 one of those lives taken away in the midst...

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O' September 11th... 
Seems like yesterday
But with all intent
Seems like such a long time away

Remember! Everyone explained
From now on everything will be changed
It’s true—many things have changed
But has everything really changed?
Air travel has changed
Hearts, minds of Americans have been changed

Of that there is no doubt...

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The river was wide
Which varied with the tide
Hopefully the crocodile’s would be asleep
Cause I will be treading with my feet

The thought of being eaten alive
Is enough to make me strive
To stay alive a few more days
Let’s cross my fingers and pray

I bought a sowing machine...

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Where were you on this tragic day
No matter what you were doing it made us all want to kneel and pray
I took a train ride to the city a few days before
Not knowing what the future had in store
I came off the train at WTC
In...

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So far buried beneath a mound of pain,
the surface now polished washed clean by the rain.

Carried through by the pre-manifestation's that dwell deep inside,
or is it the overpowering accusations causing the waterfall of tears I have cried.

The light at the end of the tunnel has...

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Windy day, Thursday afternoon clouds,
going for a drive, smells like rain.
Sky heavy and blue, searching,
pushing you out of my mind today.
SSHHH!  Watch him...
There's a man feeding the ducks!
Hear the lake pressing against the shore,
there's resort living across the way.
Going for a walk, looks like...

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Disfirgured flesh burns blood covered corpses black. 
Undisguised enemy penetrates a mass killing attack. 
Terrorized millinum pushing forth the diverted Holy War. 
Hatred consumes all peace, opening up hell's locked door. 
Creating choas, violent anarchy throughout the lands of earth. 
Devoured harbors run rampant, with...

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