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Brakeman Poems - Poems about Brakeman


Night Train - Blues Poem 18
...Itching itching nowhere to scratch Rambling rambling balling the jack Freight car open voices interred The brakeman singing "Turn "Turn "Turn" (Dreamsleep: April, 2024) ......

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Categories: brakeman, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Someday Train
...The Toonerville Express disturbs a still December morn’, Like Gabriel himself, but with a whistle, not a horn. It fades into the distance as my hopes go down the drain. I’m two miles from the sta......

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Categories: brakeman, allegory, dedication, endurance, freedom,
Form: Lyric



Trainge Dreams
...I dreamed I was a porter carrying bags that weighed a ton. Quickly answering in the Club Car when anyone called, "Hey Son"! I dreamed I was a conductor punching tickets neat as you please. Wa......

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Categories: brakeman, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hornby's Corner
...Hornby's Corner, I overheard as our train whizzed past the clanging railway crossing to the commuter station ahead. Used to be a station, with the best ice cream in the world. In the su......

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Categories: brakeman,
Form: Free verse
Seeking Bethlehem
...The conductor stopped by my seat and advised me that we would soon be entering the Philadelphia rail-yards where the baggage car would be added to another train. He would advise the engineer to have......

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Categories: brakeman, loss, car, me, car,
Form: Narrative



Dead Mans Curve
...The old steam engine chugged trying to reach the top, Slowly it inched as the pressure valves were about to pop. Just a few more feet and it would start its journey down, And it would then be up t......

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Categories: brakeman, death, dedication, devotion, lifeold,
Form: Verse
Gluttonous Heresy
...These ideals I avoid Perplex me most annoyed So wrapped up in myself Faith kneels down on a shelf Lost beyond conceit here This azure mirage sphere Claims my journeys aren't done Since trials ......

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Categories: brakeman, confusion, loss
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things