Best Trestle Poems

Visuals and music were exquisite
Sunsets elicit a sensation of surrender
Poetic lyrics buried amid lovely valleys
Where aspirations and ambitions are born
Promises that are as transitory as a breeze
Aspirations cling to creek bottoms
Just beyond the reach of terrible truths
Despite this awareness, one feels obliged
To fall totally lost...

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On  Train Trestle 

Bag Lady laid down her head on train trestle
Waiting for the locomotive
The bridge took on a new dimension
Iron and timber became her bed
As she bent with them
Her pillow was the rail
A candle nestled in one hand
A knife held in the other
They...

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Railroad ties are the pavement under me
I count each as I go
Below the rusty waters of the Milwaukee River flow
An old ladder hangs over the side
Some passerby has left their graffiti in white
The tracks get closer as my eyes follow them away
I stop to smell...

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