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River Crossing

Icy blue water showing through thin ice
Train crossing on the bridge high above
On silver tracks worn slick with the years,
The trestle creaking, boxcars screeching
One after another streaks of daylight
Blipping through the narrow passages,
Housing enormous couplers, air brakes
Occasionally squealing cryptic messages
Graffiti on the sides with sidewalk crayons
Like strange Middle Eastern languages
Moving too rapidly to be translated,
Steam

Categories: locomotive, moving on,
Form: Imagism

The Conductor

The Conductor
David J Walker

The low rumbling voice
Of the locomotive  reminded  me
Of my time traveling days from this to
Another place 
  another time
In space
That would become Mine as well

Where the young  sang 
Love songs in romance
Languages unknown
In this today 

The engineer poet played his prose
On his whistle in echoed  harmonies 
on

Categories: locomotive, allegory, allusion, dance, time,
Form: Rhyme

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.
Locomotive whistle sounds station steam rolling in,
Little one hears repeats ‘choo-choo’ rolls to stop,
All aboard!  Rolls locomotion moving, snack on tasty
Peanut brittle, readying for dining car delicious hop.

Mom holds little

Categories: locomotive, america, family, heaven, horse,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Locomotive

A locomotive
Barreling through blizzard's tracks
The engines pump fiercely
Churning white skies into black
Hot with steamy rage
Its whistle screams into the air
Reminding all who hear it
A monster is drawing near

It doesn't care for winter
Or the snowdrifts piling on
It feeds on the very mountains 
And breathes fire from their ore
And as darkness falls across the land
This train, keeps

Categories: locomotive, leaving,
Form: Rhyme

The Locomotive

The Locomotive

The mighty Locomotive,
Was the muscle of its day.
Moving freight and passengers,
Down a steel highway.

It’s beauty and it’s romance,
Made headlines near and far.
Train robberies and train wrecks,
It had become a star.

The Locomotive was thought to be,
Man's answer to the world.
Until new and better innovations,
Soon would be unfurled.

As all things do there come a time,
It certainly

Categories: locomotive, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Steam Locomotive

Steam powered steel wheels,
pushing pistons in cycles
of captured time.

Categories: locomotive, time, travel,
Form: Haiku

The Train Ride

I feel so grand this special day in June
while waiting at the station for my ride
aboard the new steam engine coming soon
to take me to a place where I can hide

from city noise and busy city streets;
from smog-filled air and houses crowded so,
to countrysides with grassy fields of wheat
and clear blue skies where soft winds

Categories: locomotive, journey, travel,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

The Locomotive

Hear the lonesome whistle blow, it echoes across the vast
Continental divide, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
Coastal shores, by the steel rails iron horse.
It raged in blazing thunder, leaving a storm cloud of white
Smoke in it's wake.
Lightning's hell speed, drives this devil's steed, with flames
Fire, feeding it's belly, by coal and sinews muscled sweat.
The wrought iron

Categories: locomotive, adventure, america, culture, history,
Form: Free verse

Great Locomotive

Great locomotive
Blowing glorious whistle
Rumbling down the tracks
Leaving sense of longing peace
With rhythms greatest moments

Russell Sivey

Categories: locomotive, holiday, life, longing,
Form: Tanka