Railroad Track Poems - Poems about Railroad Track

Prayer Lifted for my Husband

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                            Last night I had a worried thought

                               Come coursing to my mind

                          Of my husband having car trouble

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Whiskey, Women, and Song

...A young man, barely twenty-one,
On the town in search of fun.
The wrong side of the railroad track
And somehow never made it back.

A pickup truck, a black guitar…
I thought that they would tak...

Vendetta Machine

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Vendetta machine scammed me again
I put in a buck fifty for a dime of chocolate
it fired back with nothing but disgust.
The metal hook just wouldn't let go 
wiggling it in front of my greasy no...

My Future Self

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A photo of my past reveals a pattern
Like a stroll that one would unfold;
Like a one-way forward railroad track,
Portraying rather interesting facts and
Saying to all that, usually, I did not...

Oh Christ! The Train's a Comin'

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       The rash upon my wrist
                       awaits the railroad track
                                      Nail
                             to penetrate my flesh
                  ...

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...

Dead End Street

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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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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
“...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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