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Railroads Poems - Poems about Railroads

Railroads Poems - Examples of all types of poems about railroads to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for railroads.
The foot of the hill
...The morning sun rises from behind the shady hill warming the village with a solemn hymn, everyone has gone out of the town leaving dryness and darkness all around; the dogs are running and barking at......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, animal, change, cinco de
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Let The Laborers Rest
...Let the laborers rest, like poetry, the rhyme is in their job, as they hammer the nails, and man the railroads, maids clean someone else's toilets, others fell giant trees, as the waitresses tw......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living With a Visiting Ghost
...Most local folk lore is intended to unnerve but I think there's validity to the Haunted horse shoe curve. The building of our nations rails took a terrible toll on the Irish, the Chinese, and many......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, 1st grade,
Form: Light Verse
I Changed Tonight
...I changed tonight, of country, my friends, I know a dirty girl from Tennessee, More sparkling than a champagne cork, With black rimmel and lipsticks on sale. I changed countries last night, my ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, 9th grade, appreciation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Decolonize
...It has come out of academia, and gets some play in the media too, they cry about ‘decolonization,’ as if time is something they can undo. They all say it is wrong to go against this, and I have ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, culture, history, native american,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lincoln Special
...Lincoln Special Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train Ma, pa, and I dressed in our Sunday outfit, excited for the “Lincoln Special” to come up the track as we stand at the t......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, political, presidents day, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Travel
...Trains, once a proud means of travel. Now the locomotive has been replaced. We travel by cars, buses......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, history, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member History of Our Railways
...Train Station Landmark --- my significant worth I’m blissful to fulfill my role in this Earth witnessing triumphant transit endeavor done along prudent and diligent fervor. Our country’......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Personification
Clickety Clack the Wheels On the Track
...The smell of a steam train passing me by The roar of the engine brings a tear to my eye Such dear childhood memories of when you and I would watch from our garden smoke rising so high The ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, childhood, image, travel, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trains - Through the Eyes of a Baby Boomer
...It was a train that took my mother west away from her family farm to seek adventure. She found work in San Diego, joined the Navy and met my dad. It was the 1950’s. Planes were not yet a big de......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, technology,
Form: Free verse
Unchartered Territory
...Sweating in the sun This work is never done Laboring long hours Sunny days and snow showers From dawn until twilight We give with all our might Lay one down ,then one more Before long, one tho......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, america, appreciation, history, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Iron Horse
...I run down the steps as the train pulls in It seems I'm right on time The doors open, I take a seat, my journey begins As the doors close I hear them chime The New York subway travels far a......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, journey, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Toy Train
...The two-feet gauge antiquated railway climbs up the precipitous hilly gradient, negotiates gallantly the steep gorge slope of the Himalayan tough terrain ancient. The miniature coaches so very......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, adventure, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Super Chief
...The railroad played a major role in the growth of our nation It was an elite form of travel beginning at the station The month was September, the year 1825 A date to remember when the railways ......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, america, appreciation, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Training Experience: Novice
...*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak. Training Experience: Novice All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner, it is seventy-seven, my first leave of a first year's work.......Read the rest...
Categories: railroads, america, friendship, memory, together,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

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