Best Railroad Poems
Below are the all-time best Railroad poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of railroad poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
railroad, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
railroad, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Acts of Aggression Based on a quote from Watership Down:
"He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running."
His...
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Categories:
railroad, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Memory Rides the RailsForest fairies changing colors,
autumn's patchwork pattern weaving
in the foggy morning stillness
before winter's barren grieving,
up the river on the damp air,
up hollows through the shadowed vales
sounds...
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Categories:
railroad, america, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Massacred NationThe year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives
The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go
Us Lakota...
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Categories:
railroad, native american, war, cousin,
Form:
Rhyme
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part DeuxDedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...
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Categories:
railroad, america, children, family, horse,
Form:
Rhyme
Music Take Me BackWhen I'm blue and need something to make me smile
I can turn on my forty fives and listen for a while
Jimmy Gilmer sang about a...
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Categories:
railroad, music, nostalgia, song-me, heart,
Form:
Ballad
Casted StonesAs I ride the winding roads away from smothering waves of hypocrisy,
I cross the line into freedom through valleys, soft breeze and fluent rivers
Decorated with...
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Categories:
railroad, freedom, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
RealizationAt what point do you realize
it’s all moving in the same direction -
in a flowing pulse that cannot be dammed, that;
collective hearts do march in...
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Categories:
railroad, age, introspection, life, repetition,
Form:
Free verse
The Train Set
lit up with the power to attract and excite
and framed by a window of the toy shop that night
a miniature world of trains, bridges and...
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Categories:
railroad, 6th grade, christmas, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
railroad, memorial, scary, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
A Road Less Traveled By UsAfter our not so delicious meal, we started home
He turned onto our usual well-worn road
Headed west where we bumped across raised railroad tracks
There at the...
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Categories:
railroad, america, beautiful, nature,
Form:
Free verse
She Goes BackShe Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey
Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop
Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works...
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Categories:
railroad, anger, devotion, hope, passion,
Form:
Alliteration
January Jest - a CollaborationA collaborative poem, written in renga format, or "linked-verse", by Timothy Hicks and Jesse Whitehead.
Verses in normal font are by me.
Verses in italic are by...
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Categories:
railroad, autumn, beach, change, nature,
Form:
Rengay
Emotional Euthanasia
Got such sharp pain in my heart,
feels like it will never go away
I'm dying on the inside,
sadness eating at my soul like a cancer
Boxes full...
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Categories:
railroad, emotions, love hurts, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse