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Freight Train Poems - Poems about Freight Train


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 train, 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 train, 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 train, 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 train, 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 train, 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 train, death, life, travel,
Form: Couplet
Freight Train
Box cars a mile long, rolling all night headed West Some full, some empty, all singing the same old song ...

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Categories: freight train, life
Form: I do not know?

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