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Best Freight Train Poems

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Premium Member Pink Lace
**Every pace change --are the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon** 

"PINK LADIES"  
  
The phone rings, 
The clock dings,

I scream, scream, and...

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Categories: freight train, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: freight train, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: freight train, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Mad As a Hatter
Alice in Wonderland 
Was my favorite book as a kid
I used to pretend that I was Alice
Having tea with the Mad Hatter 
And the March...

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Categories: freight train, analogy, books, crazy, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dark Side of a Coin
I roll along a dark ledge
Teetering between yesterday and oblivion
Contemplating one final sin
My ultimate act of inner hate
Do I have a choice or is it...

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Categories: freight train, dark, death, depression, youth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member How, When and Why
According to my neighborhood, 
(All experts on the topic), 
Opinions vary, none too good, 
One called it "Catastrophic". 

Exterminators sigh, refrain 
Condolences, I'm sorry. 
At...

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Categories: freight train, adventure, allegory, allusion, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surprise Factor
(Why I'm Still Breathing)

When the cow was dry, she was compliant.
When she calved, she turned vicious
and no fence could hold her,
but she gave milk in...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: freight train, animal, childhood, family, farm,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Don'T Blame the Quiche Lorraine
Sleep I can’t feign. I hear the falling rain
tapping a refrain on the window pane.
My throbbing pain recedes and I obtain
relief from the migraine which...

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Categories: freight train, drink, food, pain, sick,
Form: Monorhyme
Like Wingless Birds
I can tell you about the elongated nights.
The pain and agony endured to the soul.
The hammer of reality that aims to chisel at my pride...

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Categories: freight train, deep, feelings, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Antagonist
You appear in my sleep like Freddy to dissolve my dreams

You pose as kryptonite to my Superman
If we were a movie you would be the...

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Categories: freight train, betrayal, celebration, confidence, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Old Tracks
In my town and only 90 feet
from my house run a pair of old tracks, 
railroad tracks older than my house, 
even older than me,...

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Categories: freight train, allegory, angst, appreciation, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
No Sympathy From the Devil
A hurricane is blowing.
Cars are flying in the sky.
Doesn't even mess my hair.
It's coming from my eye.

An earthquake is rolling.
Knocks you right off your feet.
The...

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Categories: freight train, death, fantasy, imagination, natural
Form: Epitaph
The Sound
They say it sounded like a freight train
And that it happened so fast
A moment of terror
That will forever last

The sound of a new reality 
Marked...

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Categories: freight train, death, endurance, environment, natural
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Living At the Speed of Light
Maybe I want to cry and maybe I want to sigh, and maybe I'm looking for a fight
Feeling I'm invincible, often non-sensible, living at the...

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Categories: freight train, adventure, life, day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Tomorrow
All his tomorrows rattled by
rumbling along the predestined track
an endless freight train passing
as he sat in traffic at life’s crossing

Lulled into pseudo sleep by the...

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Categories: freight train, age, death, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs