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Railroad Poems - Poems about Railroad

Premium Member railroad ties
the smell of my youth curiosity of danger on coming train...

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Categories: railroad, adventure,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Destination Never Reached
Walking, walking, walking! Impossibly long stretches of walk, Miles and miles of uncertain journey, In blazing sun, in sweltering heat, Tranquil villages with shady trees, Home, the destination! Thirsty, hungry, bleeding, exhausted! With fatigued wives and starving barefoot children they trudge, Little babies hanging like sandbags from their shoulders, they stumble, Tears dry on children’s cheeks! Men and women…they walk, walk, walk until...

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Categories: railroad, death, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member House by The Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper 1301
"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 a house. Though I may influence genius, the only real influence I've ever had was myself. No amount of skilful...

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Categories: railroad, horror,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member railroad tracks
lost distraught crisp leaves blend into new home on old rusty railroad tracks...

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Categories: railroad, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member We Are Canadian: As One We Stand
We came from the beginning, shrouded mists of time and space, And in this vast and northern clime each found our sacred place. We were our country’s pioneers, the people of the land, We lit the flame and then became the first Canadians! We came on ships across the sea; with help from those before, Pushed frontiers three hundred years,...

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Categories: railroad, adventure, endurance, history, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Edward Hopper: House By the Railroad
bathed in still shadows from an afternoon glow and wrapped inside splendour half faded and gone this house from a time remote silent and slow stands trapped by the past in a world moving on....

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Categories: railroad, america, art, house, mystery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Yancey Railroad
I was young – no more than twenty Just a child in the minds of most nations Even back then, I believe I had plenty There was hope and grace in my foundations Even at that age, I knew I was being given A moment in history, a memorable time My young husband was definitely driven And he, too, was healthy –...

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Categories: railroad, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Heard a Whistle Blow
The whistles screamed that cold dark night Winter, 1903 ...

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Categories: railroad, memorial, scary, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ole Eighty Seven
Ole Eighty-seven, rugged and vain, Serpentine on cold iron rails, Story filled with strength and pain, A legendary iron horse tale. World-renowned freight train of yesteryear, Lives ever in glory and fame, A roaring chain without peers, Ole Eighty-seven, her hailed nickname. An expression of past golden days, Its piercing whistle wailed and cried, In early morn misty haze, Slithering down the steep mountainside. Ole Eighty-seven,...

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Categories: railroad, adventure, courage, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Virgin Highway
A train runs Cape Town to Cairo. It will be through here by and by. The route is straight as an arrow, It’s like riding clouds through the sky....

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Categories: railroad, africa, humanity, journey, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Train Set
lit up with the power to attract and excite and framed by a window of the toy shop that night a miniature world of trains, bridges and hills took my mind off the cold from the late autumn chills. there were signals that moved and tables that turned and lights in the engines as if coal had been burned frustrated by...

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Categories: railroad, 6th grade, christmas, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baltimore Heat
In heat the pulse of your streets. I've heard the crack of hard political whips that pinch the air. Cores of human topography, your aging neighborhoods. Your people kick cans counting gravel like jewels, while chiselers roast dogs in the courthouse. Swine flu kills the papers. And already the sky is feverish. In your train tunnels a violinist plays pianissimo. I've seen railroad men search for him along your tracks.* But you are always the...

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Categories: railroad, community, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Tribute To Dawn of Day: Stories From the Underground Railroad
Tribute to Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad From Tennessee Virginia Mississippi Kansas Wisconsin To free states in the north and Canada I grieved upon the grave of the slave Tears circling the tomb Securing his name For their bloodshed From whips and blows By the masters and relatives On the countryside Down south Oral histories and tradition passed down...

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Categories: railroad, christian, cry, death, evil,
Form: Narrative
The Ode of Phineas Gage
This is the story of Phineas Gage, A man who died at quite a young age, But his death is not what he’s famous for, His fame comes from what went years before. Working the railroad, he was struck by a rod, Only survived, some say, by the grace of God. For the iron...

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Categories: railroad, day, death, history, poems,
Form: Blank verse
Railroad
trains of thought emblazoned with slashrune graffiti children count the cars...

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Categories: railroad, art, childhood, travel,
Form: Haiku

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