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Northbound Poems - Poems about Northbound

The Story of Boxcar Jack
...THE STORY OF BOXCAR JACK NOT MANY KNOW OF BOXCAR JACK WHO LIVES ON A TRAIN GOING WAY BACK HEARING THE SOUND OF THE CLITITY CLACK THAT COMES FROM BEAT OF A NORTHBOUND TRACK WELL BOXCAR WAS A......

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Categories: northbound, journey, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Caballero
... Riding Wild Unto The Sun like a Night Light with the Sword of Swords for the Last Knight, Full Speed Into Valleys of Chivalry Golden Helmet and Shield, here comes the Holy Cavalier Troddin......

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Categories: northbound, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Buses 16, 38 or 133
...The thing I do to be nearer to him, Commuting even in weather so grim. The things I do to have more acceptance, Cleaning his home for a much better chance. The bus I go northbound in drives dow......

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Categories: northbound, for him, longing, lost
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Straight Ahead
... The new year found me alone at a deserted roadside, not knowing where to go but thumbing for a ride. The signposts displayed 2023 South and 2024 North. Motorists, speeding along in both direct......

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Categories: northbound, courage, future,
Form: Prose Poetry
Roadworks
...It has been my observation While in the northbound traffic queue That roading companies impose Nonsense rules to make you stew The first and most important rule For Health and Safety regulatio......

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Categories: northbound, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Heading Northbound
...Rat a tat tat - train on slow track Each day takes me - to work and back My mind it tune - clickety clack Its hypnotic - repeating sound Resonating - within my mind Rat a tat tat - it goes aroun......

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Categories: northbound, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brass Windchimes
...Brass windchimes ring melodic time backed up and down, back and forth by boisterous breeze voices blowing somewhat more silent choices below Before benighted rejoice reprise to rise and ......

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Categories: northbound, culture, earth, health, music,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Hound Most Renowned Nursery Rhyme
...A man, quite renowned, came into our town; He tried to expound on matters profound. He frowned when he found as he tried to expound: drowned by the sound of a hound in the town. This was indeed......

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Categories: northbound, children, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Canaries
...Canaries By LoLa The afternath of crossing paths The war that waged; our demons’ wrath Our minds intwined in broken trust The dawn of fall; a slave to lust Weapons turn from phaser to stun ......

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Categories: northbound, addiction, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Coyote Corner
...Image of Coyote Animal Snow by Pixabay Coyote Corner Coyotes are wolves near cognate brothers, closer to jackals who are bred o'er seas, plus, noted slang for smugglers of mo......

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Categories: northbound, animal, character,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Central Park Gems
...For a few weeks they descend upon central park greens to refresh and feed after a long northbound journey flying through thousands of gray and blue miles arriving in feathered shawls in every colo......

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Categories: northbound, bird, people, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chicago Firsts
...In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while waiting to be picked up by a family member, I met my fir......

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Categories: northbound, chicago,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Northbound River - Southbound Train
...A northbound river and a southbound train for we're moving to a more clement clime and swear we're never coming back again. Sun’s low on horizon of the Great West Plain you always said sunset w......

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Categories: northbound, leaving, river,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Shared Journey
...We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha We ourselves must dance Earth's revolving evolving revolutionary viral path empowering and disempowering healing violence and hurting peace, ......

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Categories: northbound, culture, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Rain
...Rain An unnoticed ship sails across the sky. Its leaden oars trail swift exploration down the horizon. It stern-ward went forth, swift over northbound upon the briny shore an......

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Categories: northbound, metaphor, rain, sea,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

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