Long Amtrak Poems
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Letter On a Train
I once met a gentleman on an Amtrak train whose name was Sitruc Nosttam.*He was some 20 years my senior which was a real treat to me because I have great respect for and love...
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Categories:
amtrak, care, people, write,
Form:
Verse
You Told Me
2/23/18
On me you'd tittle tattle
Too often you told me fiddle-faddle
Now you're beginning to unravel
Can't even handle
Your own battle
And are being used an example
For what happens when you pull a scandal
You told me claptrap
It's time I...
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Categories:
amtrak, dark, perspective, poetry, rap, remember, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
58 Hours of Rail
By way of Amtrak we journeyed slowly but surely from Sacramento to Chicago. We departed Monday morning July 21st at the scheduled time of 11:09 am. From that moment on, one could feel...
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Categories:
amtrak, adventure, happy, husband, travel, wife,
Form:
Haibun
Pave the Adirondacks
They told me, "Leave Brooklyn, find the green,"
"Head upstate, change the scene,"
Nature's arms open wide,
So I took that long Amtrak ride.
I knew there were bobcats, I knew there was...
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Categories:
amtrak, nature,
Form:
Lyric
Iron Horses
I would be so excited, standing there on the railroad platform, holding my mothers hand. I had waited for this day. A chance to ride the train to Boston. Impatiently, from time...
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Categories:
amtrak, adventure, nostalgia, me,
Form:
Narrative
Military Awards and Medals
Awards and Recognition
They patted selves on their very own back;
They do have all things which we will lack;
Am so sore,
We are poor,
Live in towers while we survive in a shack.
Many things medals and awards are...
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Categories:
amtrak, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Your Long Angular Feet
Your Long Angular Feet
You don’t know me, but
I been riding here in this trundling lounge car
for two hours now, watching
you and your long angular feet,
while rumbling over these burdened tracks,
to silent Garden City, up...
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Categories:
amtrak, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Release the Music
I was never a great athlete, just a sub-par one at best.
I don't sing, play an instrument, nor did I ever learn to dance.
As a young boy, I felt and accepted the call to preach...
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Categories:
amtrak, christian, god, good friday, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
60 miles from Cherokee
I took my bike on Amtrak, got off at Charlottesville.
Climbed up to the Blue Ridge parkway, the first of many a hill.
I met a Canadian Carpenter as I got closer to N.C.
He was cycling alone;...
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Categories:
amtrak, autumn, endurance, loss, mountains, nature,
Form:
Lyric
Two Buckets
It happened without any action on my part.
All I had to do was just say, "Yes, I will go".
Moreover, it was not my dream, but my friend's.
However, from a child, I have been an avid...
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Categories:
amtrak, giving, life, love, sports,
Form:
Narrative
Coo Coo For My Choo Choo
The trains are always on time
One running north
One running south
On the same track
It makes perfect sense when they collide
Who are we to question business practice
Authority is always right up and down the line
Little Bambi nibbles...
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Categories:
amtrak, animal, confusion, corruption, death, political, today, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Forbidden Chocolate
Forbidden Chocolate
I was riding psychedelic,
Riding Electric Ladyland,
Inside
The long wheezing worm,
Riding easy,
Through the black snoring night,
Aboard the Amtrak Southwest Chief,
Roaring and rumbling,
Down the track for distant Kansas,
Heading east,
To silent Garden City.
I had donned white earbuds...
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Categories:
amtrak, music, travel,
Form:
Free verse
So Much For Good Luck
An old southern tradition said to bring good luck throughout the year,
Is to eat black-eyed peas on New Years Day, a custom they hold so dear.
This Yankee boy had never heard of such 'til I...
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Categories:
amtrak, funny, january, new years day,
Form:
Rhyme
Training Experience: Novice
*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak.
Training Experience: Novice
All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner,
it is seventy-seven, my first leave
of a first year's work. A bit sideliner
on board, the conductor took my bag, "We've
an opened dining...
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Categories:
amtrak, america, friendship, memory, together, travel,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
The Common Good
A funny thing happened to or with me this morning during the 11 O'clock hour. During the few moments that I was watering our lemon tree, a train went back. This was the Amtrak and...
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Categories:
amtrak, america, pain, self,
Form:
Narrative
Moral Tension: Part I
always prided herself on
what she believed to be the
“right way to live,”
standing up straight, abiding
by the rules, going to church,
paying her parking ticket on
time, doing her 9 to 5 gig every
monday thru friday, always
on her...
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Categories:
amtrak, life, time, sound, sound, time, cousin,
Form:
Free verse
Relative History-
1971 Amtrak service be gone
On October 1st Walt Disney world officially opens
We all really love them candy treats
Really want them chocolate candies Willy Wonka was Gene Wilder
Relative reality
1972 It was arrived...
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Categories:
amtrak, analogy, appreciation, engagement, history,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Trails Old & New
From the Black Hills to the prairies,
he sighed as his eyes turned hard & dark
That was the path of the Buffalo,
His finger traced a wide & sweeping arc
You could tell he longed to be out...
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Categories:
amtrak, cowboy-western, introspection, life, nostalgia, on work and
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Bad day for a duck
my dog Buddy attacked my neighbors poodle
Dad said I never use my noodle.
Big vet pills now I have to pay
Just hoping both dogs survive OK.
I sat on a bench in Congress Park
Then 2 ducks came...
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Categories:
amtrak, hilarious, humor, humorous, nature,
Form:
Lyric
Bound
…on an Amtrak train.
Business-class from DC to Trenton.
It's the work rush.
There is a white man.
Dark eyes.
Gray temples…
Southern.
Loud.
Acting important. Unimportant.
Let's call him John.
...5 rows...
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Categories:
amtrak, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, art, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Plains
The Great Plains
Vast expanse of land,
Virginal, pure, and yet shaped by man’s hands,
A rich and lustrous corn carpet,
An open land with distant horizon
Where man’s green fields and nature’s blue sky meet
Cows and deer fearlessly...
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Categories:
amtrak, adventure, america, nature, passion, patriotic, travel,
Form:
Romanticism
My Pen
my pen
Say she’s leaving
Taking the Amtrak train
And if I don’t stop her
She’s not coming back again
Says that my writing
Cause the relationship to end
She say she love me
But I have to stop my pen
So she start...
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Categories:
amtrak, introspection, love,
Form:
Light Verse
How I Look
I see how I look inside out,
not how I look outside in.
My Amtrak races between mountains
and rivers, my traces, my inner spaces,
my dawnings, my inner longings.
I see how I look inside out,
not how I...
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Categories:
amtrak, deep, destiny, identity, introspection, journey, perspective, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Road Trip
I went on a road trip with my brother and dad
And I want to share the time that I had
We left from Indiana to New York City we were heading
To be a part of my...
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Categories:
amtrak, adventuretime, time, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Snow In Yankee Land
Early Snow in Yankee Land
By Elton Camp
How glad I am to live in the Sunny South
Though I must hear, “Well shut my mouth.”
“Youse guys” have an early start this fall
October snow has knocked out power...
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Categories:
amtrak, funny, snow, power, snow,
Form:
Rhyme