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Freight Poems - Poems about Freight

The Neverending Freight Train
My father explained it to me this way “It was like getting on a freight train. There was no getting off,” Those are the words he used when discussing commitment to my mother you see I tried to get off the train, but I couldn’t get off The love and the safety that I felt from your presence was...

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Categories: freight, analogy, beautiful, forgiveness, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hopping a Freight Train in Wheeling
The freight train puffs a veil of smoke into the night. The iron rails rumble. Be still. Now. There it is, the engine's call, fading To the distance. Between shadows, a lean figure grips tight to the rolling steel, His pack worn low on his back, and now he's gone Wholly, into the night. I stand alone by the coal yard, I do not...

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Categories: freight, loneliness, night,
Form: Free verse



Writer from Within
The less I move my lips at my 4:00 am Saturday morning sessions The more These words are trees standing still beside a racing river A long way away Freight train bores the night Moon without light Its alto horn Projects from nowhere entangles everywhere Uninhibited By barren maples and icy roads Abandoned homes and snowdrifts A shadow walking his dog under planets of street lights All powerless...

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Categories: freight, journey, silence, solitude, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tired Old Freight Train
Girl it's been a long time--sorry to make you wait But this heart is a like a tired old freight train And it's going to take some time to unwind I've been staring out the door of this box car As the world rolls away think'n why a man wants to be lonely and loves the sky so grey And...

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Categories: freight, longing,
Form: Rhyme
The Freight-Train of Time
The freight train of time, speeding through the years. Hold on for dear life, shifting through the gears. The landscape rolls on, under a blue sky. A breath-taking view, brings tears to the eye. Loved ones jumping off, taking hearts along. With no fare thee well, Just up and then gone. This train going where? Come on if you dare! date:1/31/22...

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Categories: freight, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Freight Train
Countrymen! Sleep! There's no train here Condemned as we are, who to fear? Consider crushed stones the rose bed, Tracks are soft pillows, place your head. Haven't we had many thorns in life? Have we failed to face any strife? Like peaceful children, hence, they slept, Although their souls within them wept. Wherefrom, like fate, that train appear? Our deadly tired bodies to tear! That...

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Categories: freight, death, life, travel,
Form: Couplet
When We Will Fight Freight
When We Will Fight Freight We always knew when we will fight, With our fears full of much freight; Amount endure, Are never sure, And would do with all of our might. Jim Horn...

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Categories: freight, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Freight Trains and Wine
I tried to sleep, but the trip is long Now far from home where things went so wrong This whole train now I call mine My boxcar upon the line Bottle of wine, a cork and a song 11-22-19 Contest: Five Word Challenge Sponsor: Beth Evans...

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Categories: freight, sad,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Unclaimed Freight
UNCLAIMED FREIGHT I offered myself to you - Rejected many for you, made myself Exclusively yours - You never understood that I was not here To endure jealousy, hate or envy – Only to serve you and teach you how to include instead of excluding... You looked over and under but never really looked at me. Patted my head most appeasingly. I...

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Categories: freight, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fantasy and Freight Trains
The spiral staircase made her high heels sing. San Francisco's nights treated her that way. Sophisticated vacation each Spring - Nothing seemed as romantic as the Bay. She met him on the wharf one moonlit night- Pretended to be one of high fashion. Her vacation spent in fantasy flight, Wrapped in her dreams and his...

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Categories: freight, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Haiku Freight
Freight train clattered by over a tree lined viaduct ~ golden oriole sings ....

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Categories: freight, travel,
Form: Haiku
Its Freight and Spook Night
as you come home remember your not along theye're out there everywhere be aware we care don't just stare so watch that moon light its end of month in oct. its FREIGHT AND SPOOK NIGHT...

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Categories: freight, adventure, anger, confusion,
Form: Light Verse
Freight and Boo Night
its like smoke cloud that loud as you hear hum moma crown and a beat coming down the street you see the bright light with faces that bit its CITY FREIGHT AND BOO NIGHT...

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Categories: freight, adventure, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
New Freight
When you go about a new light There is a new freight It must be helps by a new might...

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Categories: freight, courage, fear,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Midnight Freight
As a carefree lad I used to lie awake at night and wait, To hear the mournful wail of the Nickel Plate midnight freight, As it slowly wended its way thro' moonlit hill and vale, Across the verdant Hoosier prairie on its silvery rail. I dreamt of the far-away places from whence it came and went. 'Til I tasted the...

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Categories: freight, childhooddream, dream, places,
Form: Rhyme

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