Amtrak Poems - Poems about Amtrak

Can you hear me now?

...Amtrak with equipment’s endowed
Each car comes with stainless steel shroud
Yet my quiet ride
Was sadly denied
By announcement volumes too loud...

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...

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...

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,
...

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...

Travel

...seeing the
backyards of America
AMTRAK...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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)...

Twilight Passes

...Night often falls
with the matter unsettled

The pudding unstirred
—as choices recant

(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)...

Cartesian Whim

...Altering the future
confirms your existence

In for a penny
—out for a pound

(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)...

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...

Post Mortem

...-Only a Poet-
is envious of the dead

(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)...

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