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Stops Along An American Dream - Part 1
(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transcontinental, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain



Stops Along An American Dream - Part 3
(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transcontinental, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2
(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transcontinental, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain
Shelton - Washington State
this paean to the place name sans title of poem actually mooch oh years decades? ago, when my youngest sister began her decades long residence...

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Categories: transcontinental, adventure, age, brother, city,
Form: Free verse
General Lee
“Let us cross the river and rest in the shade of trees”
Converse like gentlemen, with our bayonets at ease
We were once brothers, declaring independence for...

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Categories: transcontinental, black african american, history,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Strong-Rooted Thesis
I have been reading a rootless thesis:
Lack of commitment to a permanent home
causes depression,
over-commitment to inside claustrophobic voices,
failing deep-rooted immune systems,
obesity,
disassociation,

Fear of outdoor climate pathologies,
un-walled...

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Categories: transcontinental, earth, environment, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Shelton Washington State
County seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates
United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates 
above ground sans tectonic plates
Population 9,834 per 2010 census...

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Categories: transcontinental, america, beautiful, blue, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-Two
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Two

The day broke on this fateful date like gravestones pushed asunder
Transcontinental wagons hooted their humming blared thunder
The Faithful...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transcontinental, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member More From the Prophet
The Almighty said, “You have a gift – go and prophesy.” 
Like celebrated prophets of long ago, I thought, “Oh, my!” 

Messages came rapidly over...

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Categories: transcontinental, satire, visionary,
Form: Couplet
Shelton Washington State
(do enjoy frolicking gently imaginatively)

County seat, of Mason County, 
   Washington, United States
westernmost city on Puget Sound 
   above ground sans...

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Categories: transcontinental, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Telephone - a Didactic Cinquain
Telephone - A Didactic Cinquain


Telephone
Wired, wireless
Contacting, crashing, misdialing
Ever so transcontinental
Telephone set

2/16/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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Categories: transcontinental, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Didactic
1950 To 1959
I am Eisenhower builds the 
Interstate highway. 
   I am polio vaccine that 
Saves the day. 

   I am the energy...

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Categories: transcontinental, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Please Do Not Make Our Party Think
There was a bit of weird aggravation
at the status quo political party’s liberation
Many were feeling a teensy bit of degradation
After an insane and unexpected altercation

Inflicted...

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Categories: transcontinental, political,
Form: Monorhyme
Does the Gog and Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39 happen during the tribulation part one Q and A
Q:  Who actually begins the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38:1-3

A:  The word of the Lord came to me. "Son of Man,...

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Categories: transcontinental, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things