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Derailed

Upon the tracks of learning, a conductor stood at the fore—
Not steering a wheel but stirring minds towards motion.
Trusting in passengers whose hands would not be still,
Grasping tickets of knowledge, bound for exploration.

Learning wound along the tracks, on rails firm and wide,
Curiosity chugged through open doors, bound for destiny.
Questions rose like tempered steam, shaping wisdom

Categories: derailed, education, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Derailed

Cups on their hooks rattle
the train rumbles through the town
icebergs crack and fall off the roof,
they crash through two stories of chilled air.

Dad heaves himself off the sofa,
empty plate in hand.
Mother has a new electric carving knife,
the turkey is in meaty ribbons already.

The train is still rolling,
its high-pitched horn
blasting through wallpaper.

We are all a little

Categories: derailed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Derailed

A delayed train 
     and uncooperative weather 
derailed his plans 
to seek forgiveness 
     for his mistake 

now, nerves frayed 
cold rain 
  hammers down  
     his best suit and shoes 
         no

Categories: derailed, forgiveness, sorry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Derailed

on a wayward train
upon tracks of emotions
far off hope derails
in the silence of my cries
his love tried to cork my tears


November 24, 2019

Categories: derailed, emotions, sad,
Form: Tanka

Life Derailed

While trying to live life to the full
Unaware of the dangers attached
Attired in vices to suit self best
Masked in virtues for human respect
Only to know that it stales fast.
As conscience stirs us upside down.

The journey towards the mature world
Enroute path lost so many times
Each day made us crawl,walk and fall.
Yet we fall at every step

Categories: derailed, dark, life,
Form: Verse

Love On a Derailed Train of Thought

one day i know i will be only a mere memory to someone like i mirror in the water
i guess these days this is why i smile even though i do not get the same in return
perhaps i will get a free apple pie or a certain percentage off on my next purchase
there are times

Categories: derailed, how i feel, sad
Form: Free verse

Derailed

There was a dumb dude from LeMains
Who would sit on the tracks of trains.
One day while there he got stuck
And by a speeding train was struck.
His body showed no evidence of brains.

Categories: derailed, humor,
Form: Limerick

A Derailed Train

Have you ever noticed lately
How the speed of life has picked up
No one has time to listen anymore
It's tough just trying to keep up

Most don't want their train derailed
Afraid of losing their thought
So they barrel ahead totally oblivious
To what's going on in the plot

Different thoughts, different tracks
Amazing how this can happen
Query them on the things

Categories: derailed, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain

Derailed By Train

I never buy, whats bought.

What was bought, I can never buy.

Again.

When.

The copper corpse which brassed silver.

To feel more like steel.

Derailed by train.

Succumb to what you weaved.

One or two sleeves.

Does not brand a thief a thief.

The have to, read what you need.

I am the worst kind of perfect.

What i project into the riddles.

I cannot find.

Which is

Categories: derailed, emotions,
Form: ABC

Derailed

A pitch black room
Resonates with silence
That's choking me;
Extreme cold, rain, wind 
Doesn't even move me now.

The sound of peace 

Is bothering, distracting 
Consumed with fragments of laughter;
They feel like knives 
Stabbing damaged flesh.
It's real!
This is real!
I am real!

Alone I am again 
Under my sheets
I try not to falter
To break down, to let myself be seen.
Silent

Categories: derailed, sad
Form: Free verse

Derailed and Running Full Steam Aside

All was certain, the tracks determined
each and every day 
Cold steel certainty dictated 
all thoughts and machinations
complacent
Will the unfeeling rails define us?
Will the force-fed rout devide us?

I stand, a locomotive, raging off the track
teetering engine building steam
throwing all your notions back
to the overbearing brother providing
lies steeped in half truths
deceptive

Shall we dance amongst the littered wreck
of

Categories: derailed, philosophy
Form: Free verse

Derailed

He wanted to spend a life of chastity             
so off he went to a Jesuit seminary                    
till he saw pretty damsels during communion

Categories: derailed, life,
Form: Rhyme

Wrecked But Not Derailed

You lost something yesterday so beautiful and so strong. 
Today you just realized that something was gone.  You have given your heart  so  
completely, that you never would have conceived it. 
 Bound and tied your mind was so very closed you only saw love, but love didn't 
feed your soul.

Categories: derailed, faith, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse