Best Rail Line Poems
The Rail Ties That Bind...A little girl
She comes to a land of ghosts
Almost empty streets
She wonders
Where are all the people
No one here looks like her
Within her heart
Emotions stir
It is so cold
Foreign
Lonely
Where oh......
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Categories:
rail line, care, death, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
rail line, anxiety, change, family, journey,
Form:
Narrative
The Foragers...We forage for humanity,
hidden fruits quench our thirst.
Our hunting grounds, old overgrowth forest
just off the rail-line, down the hill to the
river, was a hobo camp long ago. Broken
potte......
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Categories:
rail line, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Maybe This Day Won'T Be So Bad After All...Maybe this day won’t be so bad after all…
Another rainy morning spent staring through
a wiper smeared windshield hoping to
make the next light, no such luck
When that song, our song or what u......
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Categories:
rail line, good morning,
Form:
Epic
Lonely...Yes it's true that I have by-gone friends that I once knew.
Sometimes I pause to recall such friends,
Realizing I will never see most of these friend......
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Categories:
rail line, loneliness,
Form:
Personification
Learn Mandarin...as all the “elected” puppets congregate
with hands tied behind their backs
& marionette strings held in the hands of
corporate america (aka the global corporate),
they edge the tips of their toes alo......
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Categories:
rail line, life,
Form:
Free verse
Day Sounds...Day Sounds
On one recorded morning in June of ‘08, my ears tuned in to the sound of the mild banging of a hammer from somewhere close by. I heard the leaves in the trees, as they swayed just a li......
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Categories:
rail line, beauty, blessing, peace, sound,
Form:
Narrative
The Better View...I gave it all away for a moment
I would have done it for a second
Because the truth us held deep in the mind
And so very rarely does it find its way to the tongue
Or release itself from blacke......
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Categories:
rail line, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
My Neighborhood...At around a quarter passed 6AM from the 2nd floor window,
I inhaled a most lovely view. So, I had to exhale and share with you.
My eyes beheld the canopy of blue so clear, pristine, and free of all......
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Categories:
rail line, blue, green,
Form:
Verse
After the End of Banishment In a Forest...as soon as the banishment in a forest comes to an end
all the rain-drops come to the ball-room with unfolded
umbrellas over their heads
the slumber of the adjourned dialogues
also breaks
......
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Categories:
rail line, fantasy
Form:
Prose Poetry
When Need Be...When need be
violence must be scripted without diction
the whole agly truth must make the pugent
In our world, need I say third
peaceful matching is an obscure tale, abominable by all jurispruden......
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Categories:
rail line, corruption, discrimination, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Low Country..."one day you must leave us,"
he was cautioned as a boy-
"to become a student in the city
perchance you should return here
a rich man or a priest"
as autumn waltzed with winter
the fields rose......
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Categories:
rail line, mystery, autumn,
Form:
Guilt Without Apologies...I'm not saying that I was worry-free or not concerned about all those leaves falling from my tree. But I tell you truly that while I was some 2000 miles away from home for three weeks, my early rises......
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Categories:
rail line, america, autumn, november, vacation,
Form:
Narrative
Lockdown- 10th Day...Beside the rail line and the slum I live
Lonely I'm do not feel alone in life
(Early rising, bathing, having breakfast,
watching TV, having lunch, seeing outside
from balcony, reading online po......
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Categories:
rail line, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Lockdown- 17th Day...Busy path was that
Like before but less walker
Beside the rail line
Grasses are growing
Greenly lives now on that path
Decorating well
At the setting sun
Your spreading two hands as if
wa......
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Categories:
rail line, how i feel,
Form: