Best Trains Poems

Distrait within the dismal night
while drifting down deserted track...
Beyond the bend, a lantern light
illumed alone the vacant black.  
Such are the tricks that fate will feign
with passing trains in winter rain.

The darkling sky sighed, dripping dew,
beguiling to the trek anew.
Through diamond dusk old demons...

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It was a train
that took my mother west
away from her family farm
to seek adventure. She found work in San Diego,
joined the Navy and met my dad.
It was the 1950’s.
Planes were not yet a big deal
and many traveled long distances
by train.

It was a train 
that carried...

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Heavy Trains

My Life has been a song of heavy trains,
not rails or trams that ride below the street.
A move that in your gut of gut does reign
as you sense the force to come down in your feet.

My life has been the song of steel on...

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I slash with my sword and I push with my shoulder. Every muscle and every tendon is screaming in agony. I can feel every pressure when my blade makes contact. I’m grunting with passion as I push every extremity to the very breaking point. I...

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The trains of old, were dubbed the “iron horse”; 
newer trains were known as, “bullets”, of course.
Flying past with the speed of light;
they cross the world, both day and night.

Once coal and steam propelled these beasts;
today the beasts are fast, but weak.
Of tin and vinyl,...

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Three trains

 
	The first train was bereavement, in the cab the driver died
	pulling a coach of grieving souls, unknowing yet, inside
	The second train was unemployed and heading where it will
	no scheduled destination and so many miles to kill
	Third train was steaming in real fast, relationship...

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On track to something yet realizing nothing,
On schedule yet hardly ever arriving on time.
That's how we express ourselves to infinity,
Still, somehow managing to jump off that path.

Repairs made to egos seeming to set us straight,
Along curving steel roads made of good intentions.
There are times we...

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most railroad tracks gone
and the trains went to Scranton
its the highway now...

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Railway trains
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

The trains are on the mainline track, 
the old, the new, futuristic too.
On the Yorkshire four lined track today, 
they huff and puff or are quiet I say.

The flying Scotsman, now restored,...

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Trains 
Arabic Poem by: Abdulsadah Al-Basri
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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  In the book of our lives, 
  The trains wrote their eternal epic
  And kept taking our names 
  Embroidering stories and tales around them
  Train for travelers 
...

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waiting for the train 
where the depot use to be
trains run here no more...

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Trains
Rumble
Past my house
Waking me up
Whistle...

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when industry
stood on this soil
with chimneys that 
spewed sweat and toil
the furnace fires 
relied on mines
through arteries 
of railway lines.

now looking back 
to charcoal skies
through rosy mists 
of childhood eyes
a line of trucks 
each filled with rocks
crawled slowly past 
a signal box.

the building formed 
a...

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O traveler what miles you've crossed
what memories you've gleaned 
what nightmares lost O ragged one
what moments in between
O traveler what compels thee on
what keeps thy footsteps light
what long held quest O vagabond
which haunts thee thru the night
O traveler I wish for thee
thy prize to one...

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if the pathways and parklands
of my childhood could talk
they would speak of time crawling
before it could walk.

and when clouds hung like mobiles
on strings from the sky
I would run with my arms out
pretending to fly.

I would 'land' near the steep bank
that looked down on the track
to...

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