Long Railroad Poems
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Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
railroad, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
railroad, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BCSneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
railroad, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
railroad, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
railroad, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
railroad, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Wellful of Wails'You've thrown me over the edge of the highest peaked cliff imaginable
As I spiral further down, my outer shell gets roughed up
by sticks and stones
until my body is disfigured beyond recognition
as if I'd been torn...
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Categories:
railroad, friendship, love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin 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...
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Categories:
railroad, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthNascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
railroad, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Highways and the BywaysThe Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)
The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of places we have known
The Interstates most boring
They bypass most...
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Categories:
railroad, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
More Than Race-FDespite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation. From the viewpoint of those who never lived there as...
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Categories:
railroad, america, family, race,
Form:
Narrative
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcomeI dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
railroad, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
railroad, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Christmas TrainIt was Christmas Eve, a Thursday
On the Northern Express Christmas Train
We were on our way north through the wilds
And our destination was to be old Hornepayne
One hundred and eighty two people
Three kittens, one goat...
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Categories:
railroad, christmas, december, imagery, snow, travel, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Curiosity Exploring Innocence In All Innocence a Journey Into ManhoodCuriosity.
Exploring Innocence,
In all innocence.
A journey into manhood.
At three, sweet Linda’s flower bloomed for me
in my driveway under our old maple tree
where pedestrians, neighbours, family could see.
In our innocence- as we explored – they did not...
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Categories:
railroad, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Ghostly Spirits From Deadly Arsenal Spell Haunting AnnihilationGhostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation
With mighty mouse and Hercules height
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters:
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons...
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Categories:
railroad, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety, atheist, body, crazy,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey On the RocksAllegheny rail train has been rolling along since dawn.
I can hear the patchy sounds of the horn ushered by the wind.
Sounds at first are muffled but become distinct as the train gets closer.
Gulls hovering over...
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Categories:
railroad, adventure, imagery, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Bygone Days
Bygone Days
Written: By Tom Wright
4/3/2007
Remember the slogan
“Haskell is moving, are you pushing?
The railroad depot stands no more
In the spot it occupied for so long.
Instead in it’s space, a Homeland store,
But in my memory it...
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Categories:
railroad, age, eulogy, time,
Form:
Lyric
Greening Our NeighborhoodPermaculturists,
like Taoists
and Buddhists
and Hindus, etc.
Consider neighbors
extended and respected family,
ZeroZone Kin,
regardless of zone status
near or far,
regardless of species,
regardless of living
or gone
or not yet arrived.
Dear Neighbors,
I make no proud claims
of embracing a GREEN lifestyle,
making green integrity choices,
No...
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Categories:
railroad, caregiving, earth, education, environment, health, history, school,
Form:
Political Verse
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the...
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Categories:
railroad, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just BecauseApprobation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...
(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)
Incumbent upon me own
purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
...
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Categories:
railroad, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form:
Elegy
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 PoemNon labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem
Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed courtesy scholar
really...a boot nuttin
butta an overrated allay
zee good for...
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Categories:
railroad, 12th grade, adventure, angst, appreciation, autumn, break
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter To My HeroNovember 19, 2001
Dear Doc and Doris,
It’s been such a long time since I’ve seen you. I believe it was some years ago at the Sims reunion. That was several years before we moved here to...
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Categories:
railroad, childhood, growing up, inspiration, memory, veterans day,
Form:
Narrative
Serenade To Growing Up In the FiftiesWhen I was just a little girl, we lived by railroad tracks;
we loved the steamy, smoky stacks, the wheels clickety clack.
On many days we would find, knocking at our door,
a hobo who had jumped...
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Categories:
railroad, childhood, cousin, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Forgotten People*Bear with the length of this poem. It is very important regarding the Palestine, Ohio Catastrophe.
One of the biggest environmental disasters has happened in Palestine, Ohio
But, the people there are left in it without adequate...
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Categories:
railroad, america, environment, people,
Form:
Narrative