Twin Towers
Both police and firefighters
and those in desks and planes,
both those who worked to feed their kids,
or traveled different lanes,
they all fell down one morning
commencing at the Towers,
done in by martyr hopefuls who,
through hate, proved only cowards.
The victims fell in different sites
by fire from the sky.
The loved ones that they left behind
had prayed they wouldn’t die.
Public servants and all others,
who lost the toss of dice,
who gave their lives in brotherhood,
To them, true Paradise.
About this poem
After watching the TV musical celebration from a Boston orchestra and also in D.C. and NYC, I mouthed a couple of ditties sung by a counselor I suddenly recalled from when I was 10 on a bus going to a summer camp in Spring Valley, NY on the falling of the Titanic plus the cowardly shooting in the back of Jesse James, alias Mr. Howard; that as well as remembering the lower Manhattan silhouette from my top floor bedroom window in Washington Hts. (though the haze only let me distinguish the Empire State Bldg. ) Then in one night I basically drafted it. (I didn't think it'd serve as a part-time when I retired but remembering a co-worker's cousin who died in the TT, I thought it'd be of value to him). more »
Written on July 04, 2002
Submitted by vukd on February 11, 2023
Modified on April 04, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | ABXBXAXX XCXCADXD |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 506 |
| Words | 99 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
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