Wake Up Call
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Seems like someones always on fire in NYC,
Seems someones always dyin in NYC.
Firetrucks always screamin, sirens wail day in, night out,
From your perch, they rush by, echoes chasin down the b...
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Categories:
firetrucks, city, life,
Form: Free verse
Crooklyn
...Brooklyn, New York is my hometown,
There's always something going down.
So many different places, Religions, and races,
Walking so fast you'll only get a glimpse of their faces.
A huge meltin...
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Categories:
firetrucks, appreciation, childhood, city, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
The Fire's Raging
...The fire's raging, get out now!
Just me alone, and yet somehow,
must take my very special things...
my ties to life that comfort brings.
My cell phone first to keep in touch...
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Categories:
firetrucks, courage, fire, life, remember,
Form: Couplet
Firetrucks
...Ma came in my room and put a pair of shoes on my feet
It was hard to say if we would be returning so we should prepare to leave
She took my hand and walked me through smoke and past the fire
To ...
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Categories:
firetrucks, cheer up, emotions, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Voting Booth Conversation
...My African-American
young adolescent daughter,
since she was age five
needing a therapeutic home and family,
with Oppositional Disorder
and deviantly diverse neural-cognitive communication patte...
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Categories:
firetrucks, bullying, daughter, discrimination, health,
Form: Political Verse
Flicked Cigarette
...Through the hills within the woods of a mountain's slithering slopes,
A road winds its way, on which rides a car driven by a misanthrope.
Plucking from his pocket a pack of poison sticks with on...
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Categories:
firetrucks, addiction, appreciation, care, mountains,
Form: Couplet
Santa's Unseemly Parade
...Santa arrived on our street yesterday
spewing considerable exhaust
while riding atop a parade of firetrucks and vans,
floodlit like a nativity display at night,
full sirens and blaring Christmas ...
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Categories:
firetrucks, christmas, giving, humor, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Tomorrow's Geniuses-My Lovely Children
...Never thought children were tomorrow's geniuses;
'though they're still innocent, their behavior amuses!
There's an adorable child who is much smarter that I am;
he's talkative, vibrant and happ...
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Categories:
firetrucks, character, child, computer, culture,
Form: Couplet
The Burning
...The Burning
It was seven days and seven nights
Or there abouts, I was not so sure
Life was shrouded in the darkness not at all pure
I lost track of dawn, of dusk, of realities fight
To keep ...
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Categories:
firetrucks, angel, angst, goodbye, suicide,
Form: Verse
The Nun and the Witches Last Walk
...Even though
It was so long ago
It still holds the place in my heart
The one I reserved for special moments
with him
The times before his health
got the best of our relationship
Back when my g...
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Categories:
firetrucks, granddaughter, grandfather, grandparents, halloween,
Form: Free verse
A News Report
...In France, on Friday the fourteenth of February a famous French family flamed fires in a faulty fireplace causing a frightening fire. Fresco street friends fretfully watched as fifty fabulous fireme...
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Categories:
firetrucks, imagination,
Form: Alliteration
Thoughts of a Survivor
...I haven't turned ninenteen yet,
and in this white-linen hospital bed...
that horrible scene of the car crash
keeps on flashing back and makes me sweat.
I could have died, but so grateful to b...
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Categories:
firetrucks, faith, family, father, hope,
Form: Quintain (English)
One Cold Beer Too Many
...one cold beer too many
and she's crying on the lawn
memorial parade going by
bands firetrucks baton twirlers
one cold beer too many
and the grill is forgotton
dinner is burning
the corn husks...
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Categories:
firetrucks,
Form: I do not know?