Locomotives Poems

One Storm

...They weather the storm
quietly
patiently waiting for the
chickens to come
home to roost
What's the use in complaining
about the rain
when it only brings
much needed change?
Winds blow fashio...
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Categories: locomotives, perspective, philosophy, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

The haunted train of Schwenksville

...The haunted train of Schwenksville

After dark every Halloween
since living social in Perkiomen Valley
for seven long years,
a shrill whistle train whistle
(often compared to the sound
of a bi...
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Categories: locomotives, absence, adventure, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Free verse


Right now and before now

...Right now

A sign out of slight
When I get to it
There will be no surprise
A memory of 
gods behaving badly
Cut it out
The bother and the brother
When do you know
When your not in favor 
I...
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Categories: locomotives, beach, confidence, dedication, freedom,
Form: Lyric

Channeled Waves

...I tune in to the channel coming forth & then
present what's coming through
A train of thoughts move like locomotives only
stopping for a few
From the ethers they descend like falling rain
precip...
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Categories: locomotives, introspection, perspective, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

The Government Department of Love

...In the bed, under cover
Where surveillance cameras live and breathe 
Where biologics lose their way, their cause
As locomotives thrust through the tunnels
Of love, of trust, of lust once favored ...
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Categories: locomotives, betrayal, conflict, corruption, film,
Form: Free verse


Lesson One

...this is a painful math class,
and operations never had to be nice to us.
this is how life martyrs those who have been weakened by their own faults.
the desert is there to prove that pain is bor...
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Categories: locomotives, life, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHistory of Our Railways

...Train Station Landmark --- my significant worth
I’m blissful to fulfill my role in this Earth
witnessing triumphant transit endeavor
done along prudent and diligent fervor.

Our country’...
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Categories: locomotives, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberThe First Whistle

...Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came 
the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion, 
The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from the United Kingdom, 
by...
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Categories: locomotives, analogy, farewell, history, remembrance
Form: Free verse

Eclipse

...Cross all your Salem's in foreshadowed Shalom,
do the math and burn, 
brightly back at Cairo, Memphis, Jericho-less nonetheless turn,
and those of paths now undaunted, not undone to aftermath of s...
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Categories: locomotives, beach, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

The Melted Ice Cube

...It was a magical time.  It was youth and exuberance; It was excitement and discovery; it was innocence. It is now just memory, ah, but once it was the reality of sunshine and butterflies. The seeming...
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Categories: locomotives, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative

Incredible Scribbles From An Indelible Pen

...Assailed and held prisoner in my bedroom, I fret
Wondering why mad blood seized my head
Inserting an undue threat
Concealed in the seal of the thread

Running through a bevy of thoughts
Silly a...
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Categories: locomotives, poems,
Form: Free verse

America, Made of Awesome, Part Ii

...Freedom foremost, and the will to fight
to keep and protect our natural rights.
Nightclubs, jello shots, disco balls
mechanical bulls, beers cold and tall!
Baseball, football, and basketball game...
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Categories: locomotives, america, celebration, how i
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 robbe...
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Categories: locomotives, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Aboard the Express

...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/aboard-the-express
 
Hop aboard the Express
Coast to coast, city to city, passengers in line
Electric locomotive, powering at speed
Turn about the corner,...
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Categories: locomotives, children, education,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBack End Emmisions

...My back end emissions have yet to reach
Point eight on the Richter Scale
A magnitude that easily destroys large buildings
Or drives locomotives off the rail

Most of the time they're sil...
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Categories: locomotives, dedication,
Form: Quatrain

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