Long Fire fighter Poems

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...

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In Jan, nineteen thirty-three, there was man called Mick Malloy
At the time he was an alcoholic and a poor homeless boy.
A young Irish fire-fighter out of work
He left his home in Donegal - to find...

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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?
Time after time
Talking nonsense
It is because

He is the smartest man
In the...

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Shaken, angry  and scared is the family that was once three

Each parent accusing the other of murder in the second degree

But just who would set the fire while their only child was inside

Their faces...

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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 seldom know,
Oft times some politician just wanting to blow;
A Sheriff...

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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...

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(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 these flowers, a...

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I could've been a cheerleader,
I could've been a Wal-Mart greeter.
I could've been a magazine editor,
I could've been an intimidator.
I could've been a doctor or nurse,
I could've been a shaman and put you under a curse.
I...

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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, Bubba, who...

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sitting there lifeless,
not knowing what is next to come,
praying the phone will ring,
bringing some news of life without loss,
days went by as you racked your brain,
wondering who is lost,
wanting him to call,
he's a firefighter, not...

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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.
Press trucks raced to the spot where...

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A fire started on the two-story house occupied by five people
As smoke poured from an upstairs bedroom of the couple
Emergency officials responded in time, all the members safe
The last to come out was a pregnant...

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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 possibilities-
So, he decided...

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"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 stranded woman...

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DADS LITTLE BLACK BOX….
When I was a tiny tot, just up off the ground,
My dad had a little black box, which mad a lot of sound.
It would go off, during the night,
on with the boots,&...

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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.
Your ablution will falsify
Your ebb and flood tides
In Between, O...

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The child looked down a dim stairwell,
heard the sound of feet
against a hollow metal he could tell,
he peered into the darkness as he could feel the heat,
shadows glanced over him,
others were oddly chatting,
as the lights...

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On path to redemption like Michael Corleone
Shabby like shallow water and catchy like rappers ring-tones
Take control of your destiny, lucky poetic justice
your majesty so majestic, my crown royal like Custis
fugitive towards the failures, I'm Jet...

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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,
Worn by these people like a...

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          A FIRE FIGHTER… 
We get the call in the middle of the night,
Out the door ready to fight.
The call comes in, with much depth, 
Behind...

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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 not a joke;
In emergency tears...

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A PROSPECTIVE.

  A POSTAL EMPLOYEE  IS LICKED.
 
    A GROCERS  IS FRESH.

      A FIRE FIGHTER IS PUT OUT.

      ...

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