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Boxcar Poems - Poems about Boxcar


The Story of Boxcar Jack
THE STORY OF BOXCAR JACK NOT MANY KNOW OF BOXCAR JACK WHO LIVES ON A TRAIN GOING WAY BACK HEARING THE SOUND OF THE CLITITY CLACK THAT COMES FROM BEAT OF A NORTHBOUND TRACK WELL BOXCAR WAS A MUSIC MAN PLAYING HIS GUITAR WHEN HE CAN STRUMMING OUT A HEARTFELT TUNE NEVER STOPPING NONE TO SOON BOXCAR WAS ALSO A LADIES MAN HAD...

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Categories: boxcar, journey, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bowlegged Belligerent Boxcar Betty
Bowlegged belligerent bellowing Boxcar Betty Rarely rose to the ripe, refreshed or ready She always had an exasperatingly idiotic excuse To cavort and converse on Charlie’s Chicken caboose Eddie’s Enthusiastic Engine was trite and tired. Of these two freeloaders, quarrelsomely quagmire. He wanted both Betty and Charlie off his train. For they both were a challenge, and a horrible strain. Boxcar Betty dug...

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Categories: boxcar, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Mountain Girl
Sleeping in the corner of a boxcar bound for Boulder Got a life I like to leave behind a love I'd like to keep. With the River passing slowly through the desert night below me The thunder rips across the sky and wakes me from my sleep. Now I spent the later sixties in the Colorado Rockies, But California...

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Categories: boxcar, absence, divorce, mountains, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Boxcar Named Desire
No, we weren't a couple one expected. "What could she be thinking", one reflected. Yet we held an undefined attraction; Some subconscious neuron interaction. After weeks we gathered our composure Time to face my parents' first exposure. True, your looks were just a bit off kelter(sic). Poets often live at homeless shelters. Mother stiffened, held...

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Categories: boxcar, allusion, confusion, dedication, emotions,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Boxcar
Your life when but a youngster A hard and rocky road At times a covered wagon Was the place that you called home But in years as you grew older You met the man you loved You married, bore his children Together served the Lord Together with your husband You shared the Gospel truth In a little town called Belton The little church rang tried and...

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Categories: boxcar, death, faith, inspirational, lossmemory,
Form: Free verse




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