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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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
...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,

...

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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