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Boxcars Poems - Poems about Boxcars

Premium Member Light at the end of the tunnel
...How many railroad ties will it take to get from here to where I'm going. Aimlessly rolling along the tracks without noticing the boxcars of baggage I'd been stowing. So I slowly started sifting t......

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Categories: boxcars, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly Go Home
...GO GO GIVE GIVE GENEROUS @ @ GENEROUS GIFTS GALORE | | GIFTS GALORE BUTTERFLIES BELONG ......

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Categories: boxcars, beautiful, beauty, nature,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member A Wannabe Gameplayer: New Poetic Form--TEARASSONANCENET
...Hark, Hallow Dark my dear pal, Titans Mars rally Martian stars, tag team game Play--Card Black, Naturals -- rare place reason, Blackguard quandary, battlescarred, halt? Pass? Have cigars? Sm......

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Categories: boxcars, analogy,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Travel Once Sliding Octet
...Travel once on a haunted train, a taste may make you lose your mind; Railroad tracks leave the world behind dismantled boxcars keep rolling; Phantom mouths continue screaming, they show you tic......

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Categories: boxcars, dark, feelings, horror,
Form: Other
Got Your Fluff Again
..."Got your fluff again" (for purpose of this poem pronounce last word uh gain). The missus uttered aforementioned phrase as she pulled a clump of my hair from out the clogged shower drain for......

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Categories: boxcars, appreciation, august, dad, father,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Scrapbook
...Crowd of entertainment, chapeaux and gowns, of Renoirs,** not unlike the expansive midnight sky brimming with stars. Capture of long ago memories, like lightning bugs in jars. Knee deep, flood ......

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Categories: boxcars, humanity, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member River Crossing
...Icy blue water showing through thin ice Train crossing on the bridge high above On silver tracks worn slick with the years, The trestle creaking, boxcars screeching One after another ......

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Categories: boxcars, moving on,
Form: Imagism
Vagabond Dreams
...A sunset with shades of orange and pink An evening so clear with bright stars An open, soft field to enjoy the dark night A freight train with empty boxcars A beach stretched with sand of vivid......

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Categories: boxcars, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Train To Auschwitz
...In nineteen forty four on the third of September Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember It was the date of the last train to Auschwitz in Poland From Westerbork transit camp in the Ned......

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Categories: boxcars, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Reel
...Choose moment foiled Over moment gone or none. Penance paid all bard alas anon. Bars of boxcars rolling down Canals of clotted wax; These are the facts As I know them to be; Sum total me. ......

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Categories: boxcars, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Paint Our Caves
...Once lit by flickering torch light with animal tallow mixed with ocher daubed on subterranean rock walls now lit by streetlights or LED headlamp slashes of spray paint and magic markers splatt......

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Categories: boxcars, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Common Good
...A funny thing happened to or with me this morning during the 11 O'clock hour. During the few moments that I was watering our lemon tree, a train went back. This was the Amtrak and not the commercial ......

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Categories: boxcars, america, pain, self,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Remnants
...Looking back helplessly at every foible like Epimetheus. Born like a weed in the steamy morning, I was an aimless crude creature spinning flamboyant cobwebs like a confident fool. I slathered ......

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Categories: boxcars, allusion, imagery, introspection, myth,
Form: Free verse
Nuremberg To Washington
...Nuremberg, Nuremberg, I’ve done nothing wrong only followed orders, the children only song. First it was the word, next it was the book then it was history, surreptitiously they took. From a ch......

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Categories: boxcars, angst, anxiety, political, society,
Form: Rhyme
Boxcars
...my locomotive pulls you with you at the end a red caboose steamingly blowing my whistle......

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Categories: boxcars, muse,
Form: I do not know?

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