Too bad your BX from behind bars threats are wasted
...Many blessings after all these years i got refunded for the days I worked 1997 I left a job at the BX i left in great standing actually they owed me six days pay by gods grace my pay was refunded the...
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Categories:
fire fighter, allah,
Form: Lento
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD
...(A flower in my garden)
Beautiful to the naked eye, yet growing at the expense of tears, From a fountain of overdue languish, watering down the seeds of regret.
Surprisingly, the passion to garden ...
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Categories:
fire fighter, conflict, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Bell rings
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Ding - Dong
School - time
Door - Chime
Fog - warning
Dinner - calling
Type - writer
Fire - fighter
Bike - ride
Danger - hide!
Ding - Dong
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Categories:
fire fighter, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Jasper and His Wife Created Bubba
...Starla and Jasper have been living together for seven years
They never got married, she did not like him that much
He is running out of money, and his family is horrible
In particular his son, Bub...
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Categories:
fire fighter, parents,
Form: Narrative
Fire
...Everywhere known as the Red Hot,
For which it is also Near Not
You try it skin won’t like the spot
Awaits the eye the worse-than-blot…
Everywhere hated for its smoke,
Smoke sneaking into eyes ...
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Categories:
fire fighter, allusion, analogy, appreciation, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight, Star Bright, a Million Light-Years Away
...Once I purchased a book about
Total Recall
It might be of
Re-cap-i–tulation
Rum-i-nation
Or glorious immigrant stories….
But I failed to reach even
a library spot…
Too high a ladder.
Yo...
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Categories:
fire fighter, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Day Dreams
...Out on the land of the Red Fox Farm
About 3 miles down, past the barn
There’s a girl sporting overalls and a ponytail
She’s headed to dream on her favorite hay bale
Climbing up on it ready to rel...
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Categories:
fire fighter, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Flaming Flowers
...Fire fighter fought furiously forgetting flames freely forge flourishing flowers....
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Categories:
fire fighter, fire, flower, nature,
Form: Alliteration
Man Up a Tree
...He was spotted by an A.T.V. rider.
The rider phoned emergency services.
The services scrambled to reach the spot
where the spotter spotted the man up a tree.
Meanwhile the press were alerted.
Pr...
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Categories:
fire fighter, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Old Lovers
...Wrinkly and skinny like the turtle’s necks,
got on each other in a blissful daze
like lizards, the old paramours have sex:
the man, a former fire fighter, lays
flat on his stomach, his sweeth...
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Categories:
fire fighter, love,
Form: Ottava rima
President Trump International Fire Chief
...Our dear leader
Our favorite President
President Trump
Once again
Interjected himself
Into areas that he knows nothing about
Making a fool of himself
In the process
Why does he do this?
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Categories:
fire fighter, america, angst, anxiety, political,
Form: Concrete
Holiday Phone Calls
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Holiday Phone Calls,
Bah Humbug!
Written: by Tom Wright
12/3/2014
“Out of area” our machine’s voice did say,
Or “800 SVC” announced in her special way.
The screen displays names I s...
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Categories:
fire fighter, stress, technology,
Form: Lyric
Good Samaritans By the Hundreds
..."Woman raises over $315K for homeless veteran . . ." ABC News Nov '17
A homeless man with only twenty dollars to his name,
a sincere good Samaritan with no designs on fame,
observed a stra...
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Categories:
fire fighter, giving,
Form: Rhyme
My Hero Connor
...A smile worn,
with a heart torn-
Fought at ground zero,
he is my hero.
He was a simple man with simple pleasures and needs,
he had so much to give, a life full of infinite possibi...
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Categories:
fire fighter, hero, soldier, war,
Form: Quatrain
Grease, Oil and Fashion
...The lollipop lady and laborer,
Driving to work we can see who it is.
In bright fluoro orange and yellow
Retro reflective people wearing high vis.
There’s vests and jackets and singlets and bibs...
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Categories:
fire fighter, clothes, color, fashion, funny,
Form: Rhyme
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