Rail Poems - Poems about Rail

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There are times in life where you may think life is not fair just because to you things are not working out the way you want them to. During that time you may not be...Read the rest...

Written: August 29, 2023 Voice Poetry Contest ...Read the rest...

the rail, one inch thick with a runner of clean snow - two birds in bare limbs Nov 2022...Read the rest...

out-stretch wings and stiff broad sail gathered its bearings what guide the red tail hawk full flight across the iron rail...Read the rest...

The old rail fence row is jagged and twisting Between the fields now claimed by nature Lie fallow the subject of a realtor’s listing, The old rail fence row is jagged and twisting As I look over the land...Read the rest...

Two Loves No two loves are quite the same; I guess, that's why it's love – if not, duplication would be to blame...nothing worth holding on-to. Humane Nature Human Nature I have long forsaken – though the lessons learned linger; having grown far too old to...Read the rest...

Incompetent and scared You’ll get caught With your fingers All unprepared To carve the image You have made Say what you know And never forget To grow in grace For you were placed Here to change The status quo Being formal but kind Will help...Read the rest...

My grandpa built a split rail fence. He did the best he could. He hand-dug every post hole, Sweat and muscle, rough-hewn wood. Didn’t compromise his standards, He was sure to do it right. He made it bull...Read the rest...

The railway is expanding So the government’s demanding That anything that’s standing In the way must be removed. Remove the stock brick terraces Our family homes and premises For onward comes the nemesis Of all we’ve known and...Read the rest...

Bodies crammed shoulder to shoulder Packed in wooden cattle cars Their destination to them unknown; Men, women, and children, Old, young, and grown. Bodies standing crowded and pressed against each other Hearts filled with fear and despair; Their screams and sobs of...Read the rest...

Golden sunlight softly falls on the cottage by the shore and the woman standing there on a summer day so warm roof is batched with grasses dry and of golden wood 'tis built things of life shaped by man forming all that...Read the rest...

All night I travel, in a dream… asleep since midnight - plus sixteen. A ghost train’s whistle, softly drawn through orange-black at cusp of dawn. The phantom locomotive chugs with each and every stroke, then crests the hill, going faster still, churning...Read the rest...

Gypsy of the Railways I march to a different drummer My life it is my own I'm an explorer of experience That is how I'm known I've seen snow in South Dakota I've been on the Vegas strip Had barbeque in Kansas My...Read the rest...

The night shift drags on As I sit at the monitors Security work is like that Some nights once the cleaners leave There is nothing to do Except wait for the end of the shift The monitors show the...Read the rest...