Best Railroad Track Poems
Music Take Me Back...When 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 Sugar Shack
Holding hands, walking down that railroad track
Then I ......
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Categories:
railroad track, music, nostalgia, song-me, heart,
Form:
Ballad
Little Blue Bird of Rain...Little Blue Bird of rain.
Rain, rain go away
Little Blue Bird of Rain, needs to shine again
In her version the sun dried, up all her tears
Leaving hurtful rain inside the bird
Destructive past......
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Categories:
railroad track, absence, abuse, age, anger,
Form:
Ballad
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing...Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishne......
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Categories:
railroad track, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sound of Thunder...Out there on the edge of town
Lies a crumbling railroad track.
I set my feet to running,
Too late for turning back.
I left my love behind me
in an irrigation ditch,
I caught her with another ......
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Categories:
railroad track, murder, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
We're All Equal...We must never forget that
we're human beings, above all.
We're God's children, all equal in his eyes.
We need to treat each other
with the utmost respect and dignity.
We need to learn how to pe......
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Categories:
railroad track, how i feel, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
You'Ve Taken Her For Granted...You call her without warning, late one Friday night,
She says “Give me half-an hour…,” and she leaves on the light.
‘Comes the morning after, eggs and bacon, coffee black—
You’ve taken her for gra......
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Categories:
railroad track, lost love
Form:
Ballad
Prayer Lifted for my Husband...
Last night I had a worried thought
Come coursing to my mind
Of my husband having car trouble
......
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Categories:
railroad track, power, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer's End...With brew in hand, I step into a dew laden atmosphere that lies beneath a veil of grey, through which a huge, radiating circle of red rises and burns a hole, allowing the true colors of the day to se......
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Categories:
railroad track, nature, seasons,
Form:
Verse
Where the Railroad Track Meet...Where the Railroad Track Meet
Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot. That place where
the railroad track meet. Alm......
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Categories:
railroad track, moving on, remember,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Way Home - 2nd Part...As I neared home I went by the water works that stood for years behind the ice plant. That’s where the water for the city was processed and I remember how clean and clear the water looked. It was an......
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Categories:
railroad track, remember,
Form:
Narrative
The First Whistle...Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came
the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion,
The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from the United Kingdom,
by......
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Categories:
railroad track, analogy, farewell, history, remembrance
Form:
Free verse
January Blues...I fell out of bed at the start of this day
With a real bad case of January blues
My old car won't start, but that's okay
I got a brand new shiny pair of shoes
It's cold outside and in my heart
......
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Categories:
railroad track, january, lonely, longing, lost,
Form:
Ballad
Silver Streak...All aboard the Rhode Island Line!
We're guaranteed to be on time
Grab your suitcase, grab your coat
Let the railroad be your host
Write a postcard, you will boast
about what you've seen from coa......
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Categories:
railroad track, travel,
Form:
Stems - a Greater Harvest...The tags are labels placed on a table.
Beginning with A and ending with Z, the labels placed on the table enables me to readings.
I defeated being judgmental and did not become analytic.
My mind is a......
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Categories:
railroad track, assonance, brother, creation, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Whoo Hooooo - a Song...Born here girl, I swear I’m never coming back,
Too light town got lost beside a railroad track,
Rhythm of the rails inside my gunny sack,
There may be no cure for what it is I lack,
Promises to b......
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Categories:
railroad track, love, travel,
Form:
Rhyme