Long Railway Poems
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Deception Part 2 - Translation From TagoreThis is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted.
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Categories:
railway, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
railway, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
railway, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
The Pain of LoveThe Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch
for T. M.
The pain of love is this:
the parting after the kiss;
the train steaming from the station
whistling abnegation;
each interstate’s bleak white bar
that vanishes under...
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Categories:
railway, age, bereavement, death, farewell, funeral, pain,
Form:
Verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
railway, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist KindUnquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs...
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Categories:
railway, beautiful, crush, cute love, desire, humor, men,
Form:
Free verse
The Christmas TrainIt was Christmas Eve, a Thursday
On the Northern Express Christmas Train
We were on our way north through the wilds
And our destination was to be old Hornepayne
One hundred and eighty two people
Three kittens, one goat...
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Categories:
railway, christmas, december, imagery, snow, travel, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Deception Part 1 Translation From TagoreThis is a translation from Rabindranath Tagore's (Nobel-laureate Poet From India in 1913) narrative poem - Phanki. We need to remember that this story is based on life at late nineteenth century Bengal, India. The...
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Categories:
railway, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
Log Cabin By the Railway TrackHilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling.
Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthusiastically.
An otherworldly spot...
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Categories:
railway, adventure, change, cool, creation, destiny, environment, imagination,
Form:
Prose
The Two BrothersFor far too long the system failed
in the hearts of many Cree.
Where justice for their friends and family
would never set them free.
So at this time...
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Categories:
railway, anger, dark, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Is Killing Our NationOur country is full of hypocrites
who stand up against nothing and bend over for everything
the peoples amendments pushing European agendas upon us for change
towards liberal law in our downfall
Unto our sovereignty...
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Categories:
railway, betrayal, patriotic, poverty, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Kitcheners Poster, the Great WarFebruary came in keeping with its ancient character a month of coldness, wetness and of thawing,
With departing frost and melting snow, February could possibly be called the wet season,
Maybe it's a time for floods and...
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Categories:
railway, adventure, daffodils,
Form:
Blank verse
My TownFrom north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...
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Categories:
railway, city, history, home, me, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Declaration of a SaintCommunities are built on pioneer toil and generational links,
with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks.
There’s sporting ties and country hall, to form the social hub,
and of course a meeting place -...
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Categories:
railway, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Declaration of a SaintCommunities are built on pioneer toil and generational links,
with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks.
There’s sporting ties and country hall, to form the social hub,
and of course a meeting place -...
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Categories:
railway, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cynical ObservationWhen Cupid fired an arrow in the air,
Where it might land? He did not care!
His only intent? To lighten his quiver,
When he shot his barbed Love dart thither!
So came the time, or so...
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Categories:
railway, betrayal, humor, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Difference In the Stories We Want To TellOhh I could have sat with my heart
--elevated with dribbled echoes--
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment
along the river’s edge beneath the...
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Categories:
railway, death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Brideshead RevisitedI lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I was an architectural painter and was very successful too
And after...
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Categories:
railway, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
ThirstyThirsty
I could tell right away he was up ta sum thin.
I could see it in doze beady eyes!
His wordz were smooth in a snake like sorta way,
my pappy says heze city smooth.
He don't look like...
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Categories:
railway, betrayal, corruption, death, future, money,
Form:
Prose
Blinks Through Bloodshot WalksWhen at five-thirty
In the rubbed-eye haziness
Of ferreting lonesome night walks
The camera-eye refugee
Asleep in the half wakefulness
Of the hour
Peers out of his high turbanned sockets:
Hyde Park's through road links
London's diurnally estranged couple -
The Arch and Gate.
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Categories:
railway, places,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxix - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like An Un-Licensed DogIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXIX - Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Dog !
IF ever I had a country, a country certainly
not subject to the whistle of a...
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Categories:
railway, america, fantasy, firework, humor, power, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Dark Side of CanadaI do not have to go far away
but just look within canada to see
there is starvation poverty and death
now, this...
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Categories:
railway, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
October TaleOCTOBER TALE
Go south and follow the sun’s traverse
As it heads t’ward Capricorn
When days and nights are in equipoise
And slight chills happily born
Go beyond the wide stream where Siegfried roved
Past the dark forest’s sylvan span
You then...
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Categories:
railway, humorous, life,
Form:
Narrative
Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Placemolten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
belly-belching landform
oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
land-bridging, submerging
any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
continental drifting world
climate...
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Categories:
railway, future, history, ireland, places, sea, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Time To Choose - Time To ChangeTime to choose? Time to change?
When I feel Love
It feels like I am falling into a deep blue lake
Of a baby’s eyes.
When I hate,
Darkness consumes me like smoke,
Smothering light and extinguishing all hope.
Knots in...
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Categories:
railway, conflict, emotions, humanity, i am, love, visionary,
Form:
Free verse