Best Freight Train Poems
Below are the all-time best Freight Train poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of freight train poems written by PoetrySoup members
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 TrannyLemme 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
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe 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 HatterAlice 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
The Dark Side of a CoinI 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
How, When and WhyAccording 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
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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Categories:
freight train, animal, childhood, family, farm,
Form:
Narrative
Don'T Blame the Quiche LorraineSleep 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 BirdsI 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
AntagonistYou 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 TracksIn 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 DevilA 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
Living At the Speed of LightMaybe 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
The Last TomorrowAll 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