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Railroad Track Poems - Poems about Railroad Track

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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, t......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, horror,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Dead End Street
... At the dead-end street or cul-de-sac stands a tall silver lamp pole, And a portable basketball hoop. I wish I could say there lives not a single soul. What if the lamp pole sat on a game board ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Train Wreck
...Old Number 9 was heading down the line, All clickety clack on the railroad track. It was making time, looking so sublime, Wore a coat of black on its iron back. Going round the bend, moving at ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, car, fate, travel,
Form: Rhyme
A Child of the '60s
...I remember the green grass, leaves of the trees turning brown. Walking down the stream not caring that gold lay at the bottom. Fishing at the dam a stick a string and a hook loaded with bologna. L......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, child, childhood, conflict, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Waiting At the Crossroads
...I stare at the blues and oranges of the world refusing to be pressured there is such beauty in everyday things even the railroad track signs how many people have gone past this site without ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member How Will You Find a Groom
...Daisies came courting I gave them a whack Next was a bum From the railroad track I chased him off with my trusty broom “How will you ever find a groom?” My mother chastised me high and low “......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
...Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing... thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast (methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web, but now still smarting from selfishne......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sidings
... one mile before the junction where the fast trains start to slow a stretch of track lies sleeping where the grass and brambles grow. it may have seen life's wheels of steam and tasted diesel......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, age, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Whistle
...Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion, The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from the United Kingdom, by......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, analogy, farewell, history, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Leaving Town
...Three steps forward and two steps back Fifteen miles down a railroad track Walking from misery in a no-good world A no good job and a no-good girl Leaving disgraced in other men’s eyes Troubled ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, change, conflict, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Leo Kate Rose and Jack 2
...Cutting a path Along a railroad track Through desert grass With no scenery at all Apart from passing a barren dry oasis Because everything else is nothing but dunes and sand as fa......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Early Times
...I was reared in ruins, East London brick dust on lard spread on bread. Nobody had a ticket out. My grubby figure daubed by days of oil and dirt, a boy by a railroad track. Trains slid passed......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Image On Glass
...I was reared in ruins, East London brick dust on lard spread on bread. Nobody had a ticket out. My grubby figure daubed by days of oil and dirt, a boy by a railroad track. Trains sli......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Yesterplace
...Perhaps you too know of an animal species that is extinct, of a people, a place, or a thing that is no more. Perhaps you have heard of a place......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, childhood, home,
Form: Narrative
The Sound of Thunder
...Out there on the edge of town Lies a crumbling railroad track. I set my feet to running, Too late for turning back. I left my love behind me in an irrigation ditch, I caught her with another ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroad track, murder, suicide,
Form: Rhyme

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