Long Locomotives Poems

As I neared home I went by the water works that stood for years behind the ice plant. That’s where the water for the city was processed and I remember how clean and clear the...

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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 storm.
In the land of the free,...

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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 games,
crazy rodeo riders on horses untamed.
Books by the millions, more...

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I.	Creation

Before the troubles of the world infect the soul
The magic of imagination creates a womb
Devoid of torment, pain, and stress. Rainforests, 
Jungles, beaches, other worlds of elation where 
You are always the victor in battle,...

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The Coat Hanger

Let's travel back in time to 1928, the place is Sydney (Australia)
The local government wanted to create a harbour crossing from 
the North to South of Sydney, architects were brought in to 
draw...

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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....

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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’s national* railways’ history
highlights progress and development story
revealing the blessings of God...

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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 at best, folly at worst
Waltzing in...

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Lost in Youth

Rainbows in the clouds, walking on  railroad tracks , locomotives up close 
Kickball games , I am left footed, spooky reflections in a mirror, running naked 
Wooden desks and chairs, kids in...

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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 crossing 586 bridges, beautiful Himalayan Mountain...

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I'll never forget that dark twisted face in the distance,

Its midnight moonlit finger tracing a path to my door.

A thousand locomotives seemed to roar in my ears,

Then I heard the sounds of so many gun...

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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
precipitating flow from the sky
When they...

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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, tilting train along the track
Compartments of the carriage
Synchronized flow, signal – stop sign
Yet a glance...

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The great Serengeti's broad 
face lies in the African sun, 
dry, weathered, cracked, 
thirsty for the season.s tears

Storm clouds gather on her 
brow like an old lady's curls
Promises, promising
An empty promise

...The rains are too late
The...

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From Edinburgh’s Waverley to Kings Cross
At journey's rest before terminating chaos,
Winding through the serene countryside
Spying a glimpse of the North Sea tide,
Rolling along in my soul a rhythmic song
Dismissing the world and all that’s wrong,
At...

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It feels like 
cold water was just poured on me.
Okay, I’m awake now; 
you’ve got my attention. 
Are you telling me
to simplify my life 
rather than take on complications?
So, remind me:
what am I reworking, and...

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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...

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At The Footbridge

      At the footbridge where we would stand,
      Watching steam trains, hand in hand.
      The whistle blew, we...

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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...

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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 by the lost
In the room once...

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Hot, Boiling Water.



Those who sip a cup of joe
What I say they surely know
That Man moves on Steam
Like that of warming cream.

Steam moves locomotives
Not least man’s motives;
Follow a hot cup of tea
And, you’ll reach the...

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Memories as sharp as diamonds, 
keen as knives, the smell of 
train smoke burns their nostrils still. 

Chilly mornings, misty, magic, 
gleaming rails so full of promise, 
lumbering Leviathans, 

wheezing, roaring, bound for Scotland 
or...

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Memories as sharp as diamonds, 
keen as knives, the smell of 
train smoke burns their nostrils still. 

Chilly mornings, misty, magic, 
gleaming rails so full of promise, 
lumbering Leviathans, 

wheezing, roaring, bound for Scotland 
or...

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

Most of the time they're silent but deadly
The kind that can make...

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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 silent but deadly
The kind that can make...

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