Long Railroad track Poems

                            Last night I had a worried thought

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Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.

Yes practically every word
needs be...

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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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Where the Railroad Track Meet 

Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot.  That place where
the railroad track meet.  Almost had it in
Idaho...

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Back then, life for kids was harder than it should have been.
They say that kids had rights too, but I don’t remember when.

Back then, if there were child labor laws, they never told us.
If labor...

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The House That Jack Built 3
Frequently we youngest four gathered bottles that were strewn in ditches,
 And along the railroad track,
Then glide our feet over well-worn steel rails on the journey back.
 We'd exchange empties...

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Back then, life for kids was harder that it should have been
They say that kids had rights too, but I don’t remember when

Back then, If their were child labor laws, they never told us
If labor...

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Little Blue Bird of rain.

Rain, rain go away
Little Blue Bird of Rain, needs to shine again
In her version the sun dried, up all her tears
Leaving hurtful rain inside the bird
Destructive past sudden cheers
Waking up to...

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We lived in the heart of town through which ran a paved road and a railroad track. When a little boy, I had three brothers, eight sisters, and a dog named Jack. There were no...

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He never came around much, and never stayed too long.
Carried a vial of whiskey in a paper sack, sang a song.
But this day was special, my heart was so alive.
I carried a sack too, with...

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A young man, barely twenty-one,
On the town in search of fun.
The wrong side of the railroad track
And somehow never made it back.

A pickup truck, a black guitar…
I thought that they would take me far.
But music...

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"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of...

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In the sizzling sun, Miss Beulah took a run in her wedding shoes.
Her groom, Walter, waggled at the alter, propped up by booze.
When the preacher couldn't reach'er, Walter fell flat on his head. 
In rough...

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Perhaps you too know of an animal species that is extinct, of a people,                     ...

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I was reading in a Southern Living magazine yesterday that one thing that all great 
southern writers have in their books is a dead mule.  The article cited several 
examples and said that their...

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Today was crisp and clear.
But a slight nip was in the air.
Decided to steal a few hours.
I grabbed a chair to sit over there.

Found a spot under the mighty oak.
In shade under it's whispering leaves.
I...

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I was here when television wasn’t…
Movies in color were still a new thing
Cars were mostly black

I was here when jet planes weren’t…
Telephones were bulky and hung from the wall
Most every town had a railroad track

I...

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When our kids where little it was our attention that they would seek
And so we’d set aside a night for games in the middle of each week.

Each Wednesday we would all sit down just to...

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i`m on the train,no going back
 a lonely sight, this railroad track
 no idea how far i will get 
way off in that big sunset   

away i`ll go to start a new life
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The Other Side of the Tracks

By Elton Camp

The poor you always have with you”
These words of Jesus are still too true

The folks who read this haven’t known
The cruel nature of poverty of one’s own

That is...

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Cutting a path

Along a railroad track

Through desert grass

With no scenery at all

Apart from passing a
barren dry oasis

Because everything else is 
nothing but dunes and sand 
as far as the eye can see

That and the odd...

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Born here girl, I swear I’m never coming back,
Too light town got lost beside a railroad track,
Rhythm of the rails inside my gunny sack,
There may be no cure for what it is I lack,
Promises to...

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Driving on my way Upstate,
Eyes pierced on what was all around,
Endless fields, little creeks, water rushing past their peaks.
Suddenly, I got a glimpse of a long blonde tail,
Pulling over to the side, my heart began...

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It's disgraceful that migrant families
                are being indefinitely housed 
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We must never forget that
we're human beings, above all.
We're God's children, all equal in his eyes.
We need to treat each other 
with the utmost respect and dignity.
We need to learn how to peacefully co-exist.

Notwithstanding our...

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