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Best Railway Line Poems

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An Old Railway Line
In the death chamber confines
The soul of my mind
Handcuffed by tragedy
Sentenced to death penalty
Just close to a blink of my eyes
With an illusionary greetings
Of long...

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Categories: railway line, allegory, angst, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse



An Old Railway Line
In the death chamber confines
The soul of my mind
Handcuffed by tragedy
Sentenced to death penalty
Just close to a blink of my eyes
With an illusionary greetings
Of long...

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Categories: railway line, allegory, art, life, nature,
Form: I do not know?
The Naked Ramblers Society
Wobbly bits , Hairy bits and dangly bits galore
So if you're feeling squeamish
Draw your curtains and lock the door
For today is the day in Yorkshire...

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Categories: railway line, funny,
Form: Verse
Crazy Mick
Crazy Mick the Irishman, with trademark bike and overcoat,
wheeling his way back into town, classed as a tarnished silly goat.
His hair was long and curly;...

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Categories: railway line, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: railway line, analogy, farewell, history, remembrance
Form: Free verse



October Tale
OCTOBER TALE
Go south and follow the sun’s traverse
As it heads t’ward Capricorn
When days and nights are in equipoise
And slight chills happily born

Go beyond the wide...

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Categories: railway line, humorous, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Town
From north, south, east and west 
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend. 

Where...

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Categories: railway line, city, history, home, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Beeching Halt
a stroll beneath this old stone bridge
is a stroll through time and mist
where remnants from another age
and graffiti coexist.

where nitreous oxide cannisters
and weeds and grass...

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Categories: railway line, history, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Common Good
A funny thing happened to or with me this morning during the 11 O'clock hour. During the few moments that I was watering our lemon...

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Categories: railway line, america, pain, self,
Form: Narrative
Picture
I do not picture the brown-eyed sadness,
  Pools of hazel windblown on the heath,
Any more than I picture the days of childhood,
  Less...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: railway line, life, nostalgia, sad, time,
Form: Verse
Existentialism
1.	EXISTENTIALISM


And there pigeon lay
 blood dripping off tips of feathers               ...

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Categories: railway line, abuse, bird, boy, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Solace
Crushing snowberry bushes on a hillside,
Droops down, discarding fallen blossom petals,
magnificent sand dunes soaked in pure water,
countryside nature soothes with the sweetness of honeyed melody,
And...

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Categories: railway line, blue, creation, life, motivation,
Form: Free verse
The Line
Today I walked the railway line
Far outside of town
Far from all the friends I've known 
And the ones who cut you down
Mused on my achievements
Met...

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Categories: railway line, travel,
Form: Free verse
Lost In the City
I was walking home from work about four thirty in the morn,
and was crossing o’er the railway line before the coming dawn,
when my foot slipped...

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Categories: railway line, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Far Way Place
A faraway place

I lived in the interior of the Algarve for many years
in a converted stable made into a cottage that
was smelling of mules when...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: railway line, absence, creation, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs