Long Airliners Poems

Raymond Miles heard what sounded like a super sonic boom in the air while he
eye witnessed jet airliners fall to the ground on the freeway.  His family watched
cars piling up on the freeway totally...

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Nineteen Years Ago
By Franklin Price
09/11/2020

Nineteen years ago today, the tall twin towers fell.
Hijacked airliners hit them and turned them into hell.
High above Manhattan streets fires began to rain.
Just a short time later only rubble would...

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I was not going to publish this until the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist events that have changed the USA and its place in the World. I began and finished writing it...

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9/11, 2001
Tuesday morning when it all began
Four Jet Airliners 
Hi-jacked at will
To fly their mission
To kill, blood spill
 
Target chosen
New York City
No questions asked
No pity
 
Internal flight
Laid-en with fuel
Turned off course
To the Hi-jackers rule
Islamist, al-Qaeda...

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Fifteen Years Ago Today
By Franklin Price
9/11/2016

Fifteen years ago today, the mighty towers fell
Turned into infernos in a New York burning hell
 
Airliners flown by terrorists, with passengers inside,
Flew into the towers, hell bent on suicide.

North...

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From a distance away,
I can spot a proud tail fin,
Standing upright among 
A sea of dull metals.
As I approach, it’s evident that
Here rests the Queen.
The pinnacle of aviation.
The game-changer for aviation.
The tried-and-true Boeing 747.

You stand...

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Imagine a standard barrel of crude oil – 42 gallons.
The barrel unit of measure dates back to 1859
When Pennsylvania oil wells were first drilled
And the wooden ‘tierce’ wine cask
Holding 42 gallons and weighing about 300...

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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...

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I read on my laptop today--
automation is making us dumber,
ineffective, maybe even impotent.
Perhaps it's a conspiracy by that secret
society, the computer brotherhood.
(Do you really believe your Apple is
innocent, and IBM is not plotting?)

Or maybe we...

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Predicting the future is an interesting possibility
So think of what things may for the world to see

Let's have a bash at what might be known
People will have implants for mobile phones 

Public transport will be...

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On this September day
From the air they came
Cowards in flight
For what to gain
 
Airliners hijacked
For their pathetic cause
The praise they choose
Were religious flaws
 
To take ones life
Is not their write
No where is it written
Or hidden...

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WinterTime
By Franklon Price
12/21/2017

Winter time has come today,
In the Northern Hemisphere.
The North Pole always darkened
For  old Santa and his deer.

The elves are in the workshop,
Completing all requested toys;
Wished for by the children,
All the good ones,...

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Eighteen Years Ago Tomorrow
By Franklin Price
9/10/2019

Eighteen years ago tomorrow
The great twin towers fell
Airliners crashed into them
Made many lives a living hell

Another flew to Washington
Where the Pentagon was hit
A third was crashed in PA
Missed the White...

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In anger he conspires
creates havoc on his way down,
simply spoils one’s hair
when revealing one’s crown.

He aid’s Monday’s wash
with the strength of a kiss,
commands the clouds, rain,
many heartaches and bliss.

He controls the ocean
those that dare to...

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Some tragic events have caused the Boeing company despair.
Two 737 Max airliners have come crashing down from the air.
In these instances, many innocent lives were lost.
They have hit the plane manufacturer at a high cost.

This...

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Back in the fifties, when I was at an impressionable age,
science fiction comic books were all the rage.
Rockets rushing to the stars,
spaceships, landing on Mars.
Wrist communicators, minature TVs,
super pills, to get rid of disease.
Orbiting space...

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