Best Freight Train Poems

Girl it's been a long time--sorry to make you wait
But this heart is a like a tired old freight train
And it's going to take some time to unwind

I've been staring out the door of this box car
As the world rolls away think'n why a man...

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The freight train puffs a veil of smoke into the night.
The iron rails rumble.
Be still.
Now.
There it is, the engine's call, fading
To the distance.
Between shadows, a lean figure grips tight to the rolling steel,
His pack worn low on his back, and now he's gone
Wholly, into the...

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Box cars a mile long, rolling all night headed West
                            Some full, some empty, all singing the same...

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Countrymen! Sleep! There's no train here
Condemned as we are, who to fear?

Consider crushed stones the rose bed,
Tracks are soft pillows, place your head.

Haven't we had many thorns in life?
Have we failed to face any strife?

Like peaceful children, hence, they slept,
Although their souls within them wept.

Wherefrom,...

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The freight train of time,
speeding through the years.
Hold on for dear life,
shifting through the gears.

The landscape rolls on,
under a blue sky.
A breath-taking view,
brings tears to the eye.

Loved ones jumping off,
taking hearts along.
With no fare thee well,
Just up and then gone.

This train going where?
Come on if...

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My father explained it to me this way
“It was like getting on a freight train. There was no getting off,”
Those are the words he used when discussing commitment to my mother you see
I tried to get off the train, but I couldn’t get off
The love...

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The less
I move my lips at my 4:00 am Saturday morning sessions
The more
These words are trees standing still beside a racing river

A long way away
Freight train bores the night
Moon without light

Its alto horn
Projects from nowhere entangles everywhere

Uninhibited
By barren maples and icy roads
Abandoned homes and snowdrifts
A...

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