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My Grandpa's Tale
...My grandpa was a communist, On a train bound for a prison, Lennin thought he's an antagonist, He had a plan -he had vision. On a train bound for a prison, And he jumped off the iron horse, H......
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Larry mintz
Categories:
iron horse,
grandfather,
Form:
Pantoum
Cowboy Conversation With Barkeep
...Charley my wheel horse says that Jim is a yack, always jawing now. They are both scrunchers, they nearly swallow their teeth on chow. Jim is unsalted, but not lazy or slow, although he has trail du......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
iron horse,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
The Iron Horse
...I run down the steps as the train pulls in It seems I'm right on time The doors open, I take a seat, my journey begins As the doors close I hear them chime The New York subway travels far a......
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Joseph May
Categories:
iron horse,
journey, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
...Within the frame a sepia scene a dusty porch a rickety chair the fabric of your dusky face creased with ceaseless sunbaked woes your old pair of getaway feet gives a different walk of life......
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Susan Ashley
Categories:
iron horse,
africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Ole Eighty Seven
...Ole Eighty-seven, rugged and vain, Serpentine on cold iron rails, Story filled with strength and pain, A legendary iron horse tale. World-renowned freight train of yesteryear, Lives ever in g......
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David Moore
Categories:
iron horse,
adventure, courage, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Bards and Society
...Bards and society Poets are gentle people who like to form a group for writers with an eccentric title, “a thousand poets against war.” Poetry is only useful for dictators and those who like to......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
iron horse,
best friend, blessing, butterfly,
Form:
Blank verse
Out of Water
...Out of Water - Prose An easel, looking for the painter, Who brushed black iron horse life of survival Tear stained face, wind slithering burning leaves with t......
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Kathy Bahr
Categories:
iron horse,
art, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Iron Horse
...there was a man who invested heavily when Bill Gates started Microsoft and he became a multi-billionaire. Looking at a picture of Bill and his wife, Melinda both had pale indoor faces spending the......
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Categories:
iron horse,
11th grade, art, august,
Form:
Blank verse
Turtle Sees the Coming Storm
...By day, Turtle is ornamental he sits outside of a Chinese restaurant by the side of an ornamental pond that has always been empty of fish. The traffic creates a dusty coat on his stone shell,......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
iron horse,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Britches and the Train
...ing to tire from the great load they bear". "Britches" first saw smoke then in a distance, a cry, then hugged his Dad's leg as a black monster came by. Now you can take this as fact, or consider It's source, but "Britches" had just witnessed, his first "Iron Horse". ......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
iron horse,
dad, travel,
Form:
Lyric
Told Tales
...Riding the rails was memorable they say; in the days of the old iron horse. Those old steam trains make a good mystery; all sorts of things could happen, while riding across the plains. To see t......
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M. L. Kiser
Categories:
iron horse,
appreciation, history, image, imagery,
Form:
Tritina
The American Morning
...The American Morning We ride smoothly, deliberately, in this old cruising caravan, Across the ancient American avenues and boulevards, Of the once living, and now, the finally dead, Of the on......
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Stark Hunter
Categories:
iron horse,
america, baseball, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Mean Machine
...Mean Machine The locomotive was an old mean machine only used for carrying gods at local stations along boring flatland. Once it had been a young and the President of Portugal rode on it, not o......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
iron horse,
africa, allusion, anger, anti
Form:
Blank verse
The End of An Era
...Father Sky wept tears of sadness and despair Onto the vast wild plains Where buffalo lay slaughtered Cast about haphazardly Like pebbles on a beach Their blood mingling with his tears......
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Madeleine Riha
Categories:
iron horse,
culture, history,
Form:
Free verse
New Trains Are Lacking
...Today’s trains leave much to be desired, in the way of charm. The iron horse of yesteryear, laughs at his grandchildren’s weakness. The great king of the old tracks; a force unconque......
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M. L. Kiser
Categories:
iron horse,
history, symbolism, technology,
Form:
Sijo
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