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Amtrak Poems - Poems about Amtrak

Inside The Mirage
...Is the distinction between science and philosophy nothing but illusion Affirming what it wouldst certainly and firmly most deny Proponents of formulaic truth require a defense against critiq......

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Categories: amtrak, philosophy, science, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 60 miles from Cherokee
...I took my bike on Amtrak, got off at Charlottesville. Climbed up to the Blue Ridge parkway, the first of many a hill. I met a Canadian Carpenter as I got closer to N.C. He was cycling alone; his w......

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Categories: amtrak, autumn, endurance, loss, mountains,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member How I Look
...I see how I look inside out, not how I look outside in. My Amtrak races between mountains and rivers, my traces, my inner spaces, my dawnings, my inner longings. I see how I look inside out, ......

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Categories: amtrak, deep, destiny, identity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pave the Adirondacks
... They told me, "Leave Brooklyn, find the green," "Head upstate, change the scene," Nature's arms open wide, So I took that long Amtrak ride. I knew there were bobcats, I knew there was b......

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Categories: amtrak, nature,
Form: Lyric
Travel
...seeing the backyards of America AMTRAK......

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Categories: amtrak, america, travel,
Form: Senryu



Bound
...…on an Amtrak train. Business-class from DC to Trenton. It's the work rush. There is a white man. Dark eyes. Gray temples… Southern. Loud. Acting important. Unimportant. Le......

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Categories: amtrak, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Woman Who Raised Me 'Hlm'
...riding in Amtrak southbound to San Diego viewing scenic coast Be with my Mommy sometimes on weekend. The time for the two of us, when we tend to act like silly girls. Dancing, doing some twir......

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Categories: amtrak, dance, girl, missing, silly,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Letter On a Train
...I once met a gentleman on an Amtrak train whose name was Sitruc Nosttam.*He was some 20 years my senior which was a real treat to me because I have great respect for and love talking with people much......

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Categories: amtrak, care, people, write,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Training Experience: Novice
...*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak. Training Experience: Novice All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner, it is seventy-seven, my first leave of a first year's work.......

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Categories: amtrak, america, friendship, memory, together,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Telltale Signs
...Spacetime but emergent, the string on nature’s kite Reeling in a looming giant —beyond both day and night (Amtrak R5: July, 2021)......

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Categories: amtrak, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight Passes
...Night often falls with the matter unsettled The pudding unstirred —as choices recant (Amtrak R5: June, 2021)......

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Categories: amtrak, night,
Form: Free verse
Cartesian Whim
...Altering the future confirms your existence In for a penny —out for a pound (Amtrak R5: June, 2021)......

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Categories: amtrak, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Relative History-
...1971 Amtrak service be gone On October 1st Walt Disney world officially opens We all really love them candy treats Really want them chocolate candies Willy Wonka was Gene Wilder Re......

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Categories: amtrak, analogy, appreciation, engagement, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Post Mortem
...-Only a Poet- is envious of the dead (Amtrak R5: June, 2021)......

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Categories: amtrak, death,
Form: Free verse
Grand Theft Glory
...Everyone is brave inside the café Tall glasses of courage, fear toasting itself The sound of the motors, the drape of the muleta A court full of jesters —reliving the lie (Amtrak To 30th St......

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Categories: amtrak, fear,
Form: Free verse

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