Selfless lioness
Streaking back
To a smoking den.
Safe already.
But refusing to
Run.
Helpless cub
With shaky legs.
Whimpering, whimpering.
Longing for help
That seems impossible.
With one last faint cry echoing from the dark den
It waits for inevitable death.
And the lioness bounds in.
To save.
Just as
The
Den
Falls.
A hero with a last stand.
I wrote this for my language arts class about someone/some action I admire. Guess what it is in the comments and you can win a comment shout out on my blog!!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Ten years ago.
Hey everyone, so Sunday is the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and I thought I'd try and crank out a few verses so here is what I came up with.
They thought they were unshakable
Two monuments of success
Planes were not bombs
Ten years ago.
No one could hate America
We felt safe
And then the first plane hit
ten years ago.
"We have reports that a plane has hit the World Trade Center."
"I don't know what happened!"
"People are jumping!"
Ten years ago.
Smoke everywhere.
People dying.
And the second plane hit.
Ten years ago.
The towers gone.
Crashing to the ground.
Clocks stopped at 8:45-exactly.
Ten years ago.
"We don't know where she is!"
"Please call us."
"He was on that plane!"
Ten years ago.
Weeping in the streets.
Terror in homes.
Unknowing-everywhere.
Ten years ago.
Presidental speeches.
Flags everywhere.
Finally knowing. And hurting.
Ten years ago.
A country banded together.
Refusing to forget.
Helping each other.
Ten years ago.
Helping friends.
Standing with our President
Our country refusing to be torn apart.
Ten years ago.
Staying strong.
Living life again.
Remembering.
Ten years ago.
Refusing to be brought down.
Staying free. Fighting.
Proud to be Americans.
Ten years ago.
The thought they were unshakeable.
They weren't. But America was.
Two beams of light at Ground Zero.
Piercing the sky.
And showing that we
are
united
Now.
They thought they were unshakable
Two monuments of success
Planes were not bombs
Ten years ago.
No one could hate America
We felt safe
And then the first plane hit
ten years ago.
"We have reports that a plane has hit the World Trade Center."
"I don't know what happened!"
"People are jumping!"
Ten years ago.
Smoke everywhere.
People dying.
And the second plane hit.
Ten years ago.
The towers gone.
Crashing to the ground.
Clocks stopped at 8:45-exactly.
Ten years ago.
"We don't know where she is!"
"Please call us."
"He was on that plane!"
Ten years ago.
Weeping in the streets.
Terror in homes.
Unknowing-everywhere.
Ten years ago.
Presidental speeches.
Flags everywhere.
Finally knowing. And hurting.
Ten years ago.
A country banded together.
Refusing to forget.
Helping each other.
Ten years ago.
Helping friends.
Standing with our President
Our country refusing to be torn apart.
Ten years ago.
Staying strong.
Living life again.
Remembering.
Ten years ago.
Refusing to be brought down.
Staying free. Fighting.
Proud to be Americans.
Ten years ago.
The thought they were unshakeable.
They weren't. But America was.
Two beams of light at Ground Zero.
Piercing the sky.
And showing that we
are
united
Now.
Monday, September 5, 2011
They say forget
ATTENTION!!! This poem is not suitable for children and may be too scary.
Thousands
Shoved into this death trap.
Forced to become
unnoticeable.
Not a threat.
No longer their own.
Forced to be the same.
Forget their names,
their families
forget that life used to be anything but
dirtyness
cold
work
hunger
pain
death.
Forget everything!
They beat it into us .
And especially they want us
to forget hope.
But no matter how hard they try
how loud they scream
how terrible they treat us
how many of us they kill
We will not forget.
And the Holocaust has begun.
Thousands
Shoved into this death trap.
Forced to become
unnoticeable.
Not a threat.
No longer their own.
Forced to be the same.
Forget their names,
their families
forget that life used to be anything but
dirtyness
cold
work
hunger
pain
death.
Forget everything!
They beat it into us .
And especially they want us
to forget hope.
But no matter how hard they try
how loud they scream
how terrible they treat us
how many of us they kill
We will not forget.
And the Holocaust has begun.
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