Best Wake Up Call Poems

standing in line
at the local grocery store. 

I stood there watching people
sighing impatiently and tapping their toes
while typing on their phones. 

I was next, elderly lady ahead 
was paying by check. 

I saw her tremble
as her fragile fingers penned
away her social security check. 

I reached...

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Easter Wake-up Call

Jesus ~

When you woke up in the tomb did you smile –
The living prophecy complete -
 As death cowered in your victory?
Throw back your head to laugh in giddiness
As you broke free from burial’s mortal bonds
 Trembling at your feet?
Sing a kingly Psalm...

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"The Wake-up Call"


some of us woke up far too late;

we were too concerned 
about ourselves 
and The Great Escape



Candide Diderot. ‘24



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Do you folks see what's going on here?
We're driven by anger, frustration, and fear.
When it's raining outside, God is crying:
He knows that too many people are dying.
When you see the lightning flash and hear the thunder roll,
It means this madness is out of control.
We're losing...

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You’re a 3AM
Wake up call
With another sob story
About the latest boy 
Who pumped you
Then dumped you
And left you 
In a sweaty lonely pile
Upon another 
Empty bed

And you cry 
Baby girl tears 
All over my phone
And you wonder why handsome
Boys
With shining white  teeth
With full heads...

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Real life tragedies, 
this world is at it's end.
What more bad news can we get,
another life taken from man made weapons,
or a parents careless mistake?
Nowadays drugs easily reaching the school aged children,
parties ending in shame,
opening the public's eyes.
Being a cautious driver won't save you from,
a...

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WAKE UP CALL

Wake up Congolese, wake up
It is morning, the sun arises from the east 
Open your eyes and wake up. 
I am Kongolo Congo, born near the River Congo
Grew up in Congo Uvira, using the Congo franc  
Now I am a Refugee in...

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The early sun rose from behind the hills.
It was a wake-up call for me.
Full of pep, I flew atop the post 
One of many that surrounded the hen pen.
I gave my best rendition of a poultry reveille.
My lovely harem came to my call.

Some ruthless spoilt...

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WAKE UP CALL

Our Navy boom box -
“Reveille Reveille ladies! It’s time to wake up!”
Never laid under covers,
took too long to make the bed.

Talk about a time table!
Never learned to eat so fast -
20 minutes,
no matter if you were first, or last
in line.

Exhilaration in passing written...

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The world slowly dies.
Wherever we go, life gets worse.
We see thirst of power,
A phenomenal drought of an agony!

Grassy lands turn to thorns.
Blood rages in to seas!
It’s frightening to believe,
The world is in state of insanity.

Who would walk in fire,
With greedy kings to get the throne?
Who...

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coldest day ever
stiff outhouse door barely shuts
rude awakening...

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in early July nineteen-eighty-six
waking up in the naval hospital
what’s going on here my mind playing tricks?
no longer would I see Reggie Little

whenever I stood I couldn’t do it
and it was very hard for me to walk
for that July wheelchair I’d have to sit
the worse thing...

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The dawn wakes me
Morning sun shines on me
I reflect its light...

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Wake Up Call

That’s right. Burst my bubble.
Break my dream, why don’t you.
‘Open your eyes’, you say.
‘Wake up to reality’, you say.
I should press your snooze button
And turn back to my dreams,
But you’ll only be back
With another wake up call.
OK, OK, I’m getting up.
Here I go.
Just...

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Sitting here in this cold dark cell thinking about hard we was liven in the hood!! Never thought I would be 15 years old strung out painkillers doing atleast twenty or thirty pills a day if I didn't have any I didn't get out bed...

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