Brakeman Poems - Poems about Brakeman

...Itching itching nowhere to scratch Rambling rambling balling the jack Freight car open voices interred The brakeman singing "Turn "Turn "Turn" (Dreamsleep: April, 2024) ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...