Tale of Two Lines
...When the byline was my line, I soared past the skyline
When my line was the bye-line, I boarded the Sioux Line ...
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Categories:
railroad line, goodbye, word play, writing,
Form: Epigram
End of An Era
...She became a symbols of American pride,
as she made her run down the tracks.
Those big drivers turning eight wheels
and smoke pouring from her stack.
Pulling cars from Chicago to Memphis,
on acr...
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Categories:
railroad line, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Abandoned
...The notorious Jones gang had robbed the bank in town
And as they made their escape a man was gunned down
It was Bill the mayor and he'd tried to stop the gang
I'd been walking by the river ...
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Categories:
railroad line, death,
Form: Rhyme
My Lincoln Log Horn Limericks
...My Lincoln Log Horn Limericks
I never was a railroad line or a road hog;
Should see what I read in a recent blog;
Be more direct;
Cause ripple effect;
Start making roads using a Lincoln Log.
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Categories:
railroad line, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 1
...(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz)
I can hear the whistle blowing,
two short b...
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Categories:
railroad line, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain
My State of Birth
...My State Of Birth
By Curtis L. Johnson, Sr.
M portrays my feeling of MISSING something I never had, and could never see. The feeling that people were always MOVING ...
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Categories:
railroad line, birth, courage, desire, destiny,
Form: Acrostic
First Date
...I met him in the town's local cafe
A young adonis working the railroad line.
Long blonde hair, eyes so blue,
with a strong muscular body too.
He asked me to meet him the next day
Agreeing, th...
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Categories:
railroad line, loveme,
Form: Free verse
In the White House
...John
William
Henry famed
steel driving man,
no
more
a myth-
leased out from
Virginia's
pen' -
died
on the
railroad line-
buried 'neath the
san'....
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Categories:
railroad line, history, people,
Form: Epic