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Best Smokestack Poems

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Premium Member Last Train To Auschwitz Contest
Ashes to Ashes

Smoke
rises in the distance.

The boxcar
rocks,
rocks,
rocks;
stones
are placed along the ties.
Were they placed by Chance
or left 
as gently as Kaddish.
I lift my hands in the...

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Categories: smokestack, angst, death, death of
Form: I do not know?



If Shoelaces Sang Little Rich Town Blues
Not in tea leaves, in shoelaces tie existence--their harsh and meshing material
bound, tethered, undone with a gentle pull. 
 
The bunny ears
and clumsy fingers bouncing...

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© Collin Lam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokestack, home, old, lost, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Up In Smoke
truth steeped in lies is no truth at all - wind collaborates with smokestack

3/27/2019...

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Categories: smokestack, judgement,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member My First Steam Engine Train Ride
Sunny, hot, humid, summer morning, taking my first train ride
 I'm so excited and it's thrilling can't wait to go north where it's cool 
to...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokestack, imagination, summer, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Energy's Suffocating Gallop
Energy’s Suffocating Gallop
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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokestack, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 28 Cracks In the Ceiling
28 Cracks In The Ceiling


I take my red-inked dagger in hand
And succinctly spew its secrets for all to see.
28 cracks in the ceiling, and I...

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Categories: smokestack, confusion, old, lost, lost,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Portrait
The restless night had ended
abruptly. Caught between dreams and
consciousness, the town was arching towards
the sprinkled light of dawn. A perpetual regularity 
reigned over the dusty...

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Categories: smokestack, aubade, death, humanity, life,
Form: Concrete
Memories of the Sydney Tram
Memories Of The Sydney Tram

This fabulous road transport vehicle had it's humble beginnings
in the 1880s, were horses pulled the double-decker trams along
the various streets of...

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Categories: smokestack, history,
Form: Narrative
Winter Walk
Floating in the river, there are
Chunks and bits of ice,
Lazily meandering,
Their journey imprecise.

The water’s gray, the sky is blue;
A smokestack bellows white.
An early morning winter...

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Categories: smokestack, city, morning, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Bird By Rehab
They unload life’s lead
into unseen enemies
machine gun memories
flying rapid fire
recollections and musings
spent shells amassing
mental turbines spinning
smoking the room.

And they yawn and doodle
ink stains for amusement
their...

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Categories: smokestack, addiction, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Last Train Running
Last Train Runnin’

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Categories: smokestack, poetry,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Lincoln Special
Lincoln Special  
Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train


Ma, pa, and I dressed in our Sunday outfit, excited for the “Lincoln Special” to come up the track...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokestack, political, presidents day, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Augustinian Chronicle
Feelings of despair dredged from the murky dephths of my past
Hoisted through my corroded conscience's porthole
Reconnoitering barge of restitution pushes despondent thoughts through my inner...

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Categories: smokestack, allegory, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melancholy Sound
Standing on the top of the cliffs, overlooking : Melancholy Sound 
         The ominous black whistle of...

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Categories: smokestack, death, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Picture This
Picture This

Your body contains eight hundred
Trillion trillion Carbon  atoms.
And that’s not just 
Hyperbolic hype! 

What is even more astounding is…
That one in eight of...

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Categories: smokestack, adventure, appreciation, body, change,
Form: Didactic

Book: Shattered Sighs