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Setting of the Oz Moon

...So, as the Crazy Train hits the last stop 
down that long Randy Rhode, 
let's gather in the dining car, 
put a fork in the War Pig,
 and feast on bat heads. 
               RIP Prince of Darknes...

Categories: dining car, music,
Form: Elegy

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...

Categories: dining car, dark, feelings, horror,
Form: Other

who is this fancy cat

...The entire train became quiet and still, and it is usually shady
All because of the entrance of a Victorian-clad dressed up lady.
Who is she? I asked. No one seemed to know, but they were all in aw...

Categories: dining car, cat,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Dream Vacation

...Have you ever wondered what a Dream Vacation would be like?
I have this chance to ponder.
I could fly anywhere, but I would rather take a 'Sleeping Car Train' to my destination. I have never tr...

Categories: dining car, blue, cool, peace, rainbow,
Form: Imagism

Covid Prison Blues - With Apologies To Johnny Cash

...I hear protesters comin’, comin’ round the bend
And I ain’t left the house since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in Covid Prison and time keeps draggin’ on
But the protesters keep comin’
Closer to my...

Categories: dining car, fun, humor, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Mom Sleeps Through It All

...The most relaxed woman I have ever met, and yet seems quite sane.
Watched her nap in the dining car while bandits were robbing the train.
She slept through gunfire, and barely stirred during her li...

Categories: dining car, mother, parents,
Form: Rhyme

Trains - Through the Eyes of a Baby Boomer

...It was a train
that took my mother west
away from her family farm
to seek adventure. She found work in San Diego,
joined the Navy and met my dad.
It was the 1950’s.
Planes were not yet a big de...

Categories: dining car, technology,
Form: Free verse

Training Experience: Novice

...*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak.
Training Experience: Novice

All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner,
it is seventy-seven, my first leave
of a first year's work....

Categories: dining car, america, friendship, memory, together,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Locomotive West

...Straight moves the locomotive train miles
Traveling over desert flatland forging ahead,
Coal steam engine Number 9 chug, chug, chug,
Sound waves rolls through, satisfying sensation is said.
Locom...

Categories: dining car, america, family, heaven, horse,
Form: Rhyme

Uncorked a Life Decanted

...Upon entering the dining car
on the Oriental Express Train
to the Far East,
I tried to remove the wine bottle cork
with a knife; severed an artery, and died....

Categories: dining car, wine,
Form: Tanka

Where Cheerful Robins Dance

...Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting in classical style ...

Categories: dining car, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse

Mountains

...Climb the terrain slowly, the nature's wonder is unfolding
Look afar, the Rocky Mountain peaks are beholding
Marvel the scenic wonder of rising bluish hues 
Catch the rainbow hiding behind snow co...

Categories: dining car, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Into the North

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Into the heart of Canada on a winter journey,
     On the northern steam train to James Bay;
A scenic tour with a dining car and sleeping beds,
             I steamed through glacial p...

Categories: dining car, adventure, travel, winter,
Form: Verse