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Blessings / Salutations (pranaam) Ode to September 11 Heroes
Read @ MIT Poetry Forum - October 2001 | Oct 27 2001 | Someone close to me

Posted on 04/25/2002 3:36:29 PM PDT by swarthyguy

Among Flight Ninetythree passengers,
Were common folk, business travellers,
Unmindful of a certain death,
They fought like tigers,
To foil the aim of armed killers,
Forcing the plane into the wilderness,
Crashing away from the city centers,
Salute these common heroes,
Pranaam!

A very compassionate Chaplain,
Who leaned to pray with a fireman,
Lending solace, last rites to a dying man,
Disregarding the falling heavy slabs,
That buried them both in an eternal clasp,
Salute the undying devotion,
Pranaam!

The loaded planes like missiles exploded,
Balls of flame burst and steel crumpled,
Tall twin towers violently imploded,
Yet police and firement ceaselessly worked,
Oblivious to fate that menacingly loomed,
Bravo the police fire men and women -
Pranaam!

Bravely huddled holding hands together,
As tons of concrete came crashing asunder,
Like Hercules holding the world on his shoulders,
Mountains of debris falling from tottering towers,
Behold courage like the Sphinx risen from the ashes,
Pranaam

Youthful victims of many a nationality,
Dreamers of happier life 'n prosperity,
Far from homes in toiling sincerity,
From all religions, beliefs and identity,
Innocents sacrificed to a vicious bestiality,
In silence we remember,
Pranaam!

These crimes against decency and liberty,
By fanatical perpetrators, preachers of enmity,
With masks of sanity and holier sanctitity,
Hatred in their hearts for all humanity,
Religious sermonisers of an evil mentality,
Let Justice Prevail -
Pranaam

ND - Oct 26, 2001


TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; Poetry; The Poetry Branch
KEYWORDS: 911; nyc; poetry; wtcseptember

1 posted on 04/25/2002 3:36:29 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy;coteblanche
Coteblanche - your posting this morning re: poetry caused me to post this. You may be interested. Please spread it around if u like it....if you know any NYC freepers // fire, cops etc., please feel free to circulate - -swarthyguy - rleatively new freeper - Thanx
2 posted on 04/25/2002 3:38:27 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy;inkstone
*Ping maybe of interest Feel free to share it with others if you like it.
3 posted on 04/25/2002 3:43:14 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
Take that mr. Pino and Mr.Ambassador!
4 posted on 04/25/2002 3:51:35 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: coteblanche
Thaanks! Good to be here.
6 posted on 04/26/2002 8:49:07 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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