Incident Poems - Poems about Incident

INCIDENT YOLANDA NICHOLSEN WAS DRIVING A HYUNDIA ACCENT WESTBOUND ON SR 326 HER CAR CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND SIDE SWIPED A DODGE RAM PICKUP TRUCK TRAVELING EASTBOUND THE HYUNDAI THEN STRUCK A FORD 250 PICKUP TRUCK ALSO IN THE EAST BOUND LANE THE FORD OVERTURNED ON ITS ROOF AND THE DODGE STOPPED ON THE...

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It’s deathly cold. The walls are blank The air is so thick that you could take a blade to it as you would a cake and serve it to people at a birthday. But of course, I have no birthday. I don’t know how I was born,...

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Giant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet It was late December in the old Western town of Milton Creek Preparations were under way for the start of Christmas week. Mayor Tom had called a council meeting for that afternoon To be held in the mayor's office...

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It was a balmy night by the sea the bar wasn't empty, nor was it full I was on my 5th whiskey sour it matched my mood some days a detective some days a writer now and then even a poet not much work these days other than drinking whisky writers block my current ailment I stubbed out the cigar cash was short, so saved the...

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Date: June 2051 11 am. Hot moment of Monday Morning Molly entertained Dasheri In the gymnasium while Holly busied Herself preparing the family's large Meal as she appreciated a hip hop Song. She pressed a button on the Wall near the door which lowered The music then operated the intercom. "Molly can you come help me in...

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she stood there in a daze by strangers surrounded they had given her the folded flag as the last post sounded keepsake of a warrior it had graced his casket top she held it scarce knowing as the bugle notes stopped in reality she stood alone for now every tear cried for the moment in a daze ashen faced and dry eyed the ceremony over they moved out...

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In the saloon gambler Milton, rose from his leather chair to speak And said we need to make changes for the good of Soup Creek He read all the meaningful proposals to the townsfolk out loud And those meaningful proposals were well received by the crowd. A stranger sat in the corner looked like he'd just got outta...

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THE LANDING The big jetliner banked sharply left, descending out of a bad thunderstorm, lined up on the runway, its six landing lights like a big chandelier suddenly turned up by an unseen hand, the passengers sweating and shaking, sure that death was at hand only seconds ago, the way I felt at age eleven facing Wallace Carter, his ugly brother Aaron, my fists...

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I left the pub one night in a bit of a tizzy and saw some kind of being like a tin lizzie. This turned out to be a polite alligator now on probation for having eaten a waiter. The police left it tied to a street lamp, it seemed. It looked so kind. how its joyful face beamed. It...

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The swish of some passing cars unnerving me still With the rapid clack of my windshield wipers, When, suddenly, I felt a most unwanted chill Like the rapid hiss of a hundred captured vipers. And I knew, at the worst time possible, my tire Right front, passenger side, was now a crumble, Just when my AAA card was about to expire, So,...

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THE ALMONDS INCIDENT We got back from our power walk about an hour ago After changing clothes, she sat on the sofa with a fizzy juice cocktail and her novel of the week Remaining in the kitchen, I brought out a bag of roasted and salted almonds to enjoy with my own juicy drink One moment later, in came my wife in a peach...

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Untold Incident I arose only because the sunlight and dew worked against me, chilly and unaware of my being before and now. my thoughts were so vague, I sat up wondering, looking, remembering the incident clearly, as though it was happening now. school was out, I slowly walked to the bus stop watching each car pass, each face going by, never realizing danger stalked the night. it was as though the bushes...

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Before it is posted on Facebook and everyone knows I peed in an Iowa cornfield at the beginning of some rows. It was an absolute necessity under direst of circumstance My brother took the picture showing my unique little dance. And, no, I don’t make a habit of that sort of unseemly activity But when “you gotta go, you gotta...

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I'd been working overtime one hot August night And finished about nine thirty; the sky was still bright Took a short cut through woods at the edge of town Was looking forward to a hot shower and a lie down. I passed the empty picnic area down by the stream And then heard what I thought sounded like a scream I...

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