Uncanny Numbers



That black Post
Those Ghosts
With eyes so blue
Look down on you

Put me in a high - rise putting paid to my life
Caged the rage when you cannot be saved
For air's all I care just to be down there
Solid ground the sound of never more profound
9 11 on 6 14 Uncanny No's as they add up you see
20 20 vision upon your television our rescue proved futile hear the howls of derision
Clear as day this night of Hell as many horror stories tell
Phone calls to mum
Live streams on media
As our lives ebbed away we waved at the windows
"Sit down Children it's all going to be ok"
As smoke billowed down the hallway
Can anyone of you imagine ending your days
Screaming I've not lived and my dreams what of they
Just to walk amongst nature in Spring with a spring in my step God's praises I'd sing
Family close to have and to hold I'd want for nothing never complain of the cold
Why oh why with our lives did they play
My oh my someone's gotta pay ...
Hammersmith, Battersea, Red Watch North Ken what would you differently if you had your time again ?
As the first on the scene what's this we have seen on the BBC inactivity !
On Panorama unfolds more drama the fire was put out
"I beg your pardon we shout"
As the program ended atop ladders extended
By now all is lost but how small the cost
To come prepared with proper kit
Met your match when it re-lit .

The have not's the have's let's believe
Can heal the rifts and the other perceive
For all our wants and all our needs
For happiness and peace and the air that we

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This poem remembers the tragedy of June 14th 2017

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Written on August 12, 2017

Submitted by richardpierce369 on November 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAA XXXXBXXXXXCCXCXXCCXBDDXXEE FFXB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,512
Words 305
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 26, 4

Rich Pierce

 · Amersham

I have been writing in the narrative style for several years picking up mainly on news stories that have covered terrorism knife crime fire etc. I have spent many years on the London circuit going to places such as Speakeasy and The Poetry cafe in Covent Garden, Jawdance at Rich Mix in Shoreditch , Tongue Fu at Hoxton and Rhymes with Orange at Dalston . I've had some success with nominations for post of the month at Spillwords.com & 3rd place at last year's Yeovil International Literary Prize just last year with my poem STEPHEN more…

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