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Railroads Poems - Poems about Railroads

Jenny Lynn Coleman
...Bubbles confabulated, Aquamarine rosary beads, Steel-blue beams. Americana scarecrow, Cherry-red combine. Lost Highway, A road to the car dealership, Back on the interstate. Campanile, Br......

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Categories: railroads, 5th grade, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field” Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it d......

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Categories: railroads, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse



4x10
...The Killing Field” Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it d......

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Categories: railroads, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Railroads and Stair Ties
...Railroads and Stair Ties inside his french rent everything went wrong at night the city creeps in behind and around your backs having two different doorways wondering when you lock yourself in......

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Categories: railroads, america, conflict, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
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......

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



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......

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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......

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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......

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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 ......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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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’......

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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 ......

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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......

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Categories: railroads, technology,
Form: Free verse

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