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Railway Poems - Poems about Railway

The battle of a day along the railway
It was not early in the morning, Didn't turn off the headlights even then, All night long, piloting the freight train, Both crews are on the verge of strain. Eyes now blinking like a low-battery cellphone. Shedding the micro-sleep That came suddenly for a very brief moment, Saw a granny as if faintly floating beside the track, alone! Weak steps; hand in empty...

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Categories: railway, grandparents, metaphor, mother, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Basel
I am walking around Basel The city not the herb I’m not doing a Basel Because Basel is not a verb The streets spew tongue twisters From mouths of many shapes Beautiful river vistas With succulent seedless grapes. In a few hours I wish to emigrate Set up my life in this efficient city After a while I understand It’s not that good, it’s a pity I’m...

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Categories: railway, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Derelict Country Railway Station
The shiny, silver gleam of wheel polished railway lines have been dulled by a thick scab of rust. Weeds have colonized the stoney ballast, the wooden sleepers have rotted away to dust. The bush has closed in, dissolving the once clear perspectives of distance into a leafy clutter of nearby mallee trees. I stand on the platform, invite my thoughts to populate...

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Categories: railway, history, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Two Returns For Manchester
Trinity Street, Bolton, it was Jack and Jaya’s first date, Jack had got there early, worried he’d be late, the ticket woman said, to head for platform two, “you’ll have to get a move on though, your train is almost due”, from Moses Gate to Manchester, the world went flashing by, factories and football fields, beneath a clouded sky, soon the train screeched to a halt, with much...

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Categories: railway, funny, teen love, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Railway Lines
how many of you wonder how you find yourself where you are now on some fast train that's shooting by the world outside and don't know why and wishing as it takes the bend before it reaches journey's end that it would stop to let you breathe and disembark then watch it leave so you could turn and walk right back to all those stations on your track to see those places on your...

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Categories: railway, destiny, hope, life, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme



Passing Underneath a Railway Bridge
She seemed oblivious to the smattering of lightly falling rain; He holding her hand...and as much as his very life should Depend upon this. ...

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Categories: railway, love,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Kid With a Railway Set
It's a basic track layout just a circle with you as the central feature in the middle of it. My train does not travel anywhere - why should it? Don't care. Sometime though I imagine you onboard the loco with me, even though that model steam train has been discontinued for many years....

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Categories: railway, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Railway Station
Neon lights outlined stalls in braids of red and green in the dim cavernous hall of the railway station. Muted drum taps of passing feet and crisscross talk were pierced by stabbing announcements of departing trains. A stairway tunneled upwards to the street where a wall of daylight met squinting eyes. Stonework still wore the soot of steam trains long silenced from impatient panting, their age had passed. My age was...

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Categories: railway, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Log Cabin By the Railway Track
Hilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling. Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthusiastically. An otherworldly spot we somehow lived in teetering on the green tufts of dew-soaked ambience near the railway tracks. Clumps of moss also intersperse...

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Categories: railway, adventure, change, cool, creation,
Form: Prose
Premium Member River Crossing
Icy blue water showing through thin ice Train crossing on the bridge high above On silver tracks worn slick with the years, The trestle creaking, boxcars screeching One after another streaks of daylight Blipping through the narrow passages, Housing enormous couplers, air brakes Occasionally squealing cryptic messages Graffiti on the sides with sidewalk crayons Like strange Middle Eastern languages Moving too rapidly to be translated, Steam...

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Categories: railway, moving on,
Form: Imagism
Railway Life
Heat slows on in summer, Trains are rolling slow Cold slows on in winter, When it hits twenty five below. Other crews working in the yard Makes getting out extremely hard. Trainmaster yelling, wondering when we will leave, I just go forward and backwards, He best be asking Steve…. Waiting for a clearance, RTC is slow, Trainmaster still yelling, wanting us to go. Finally...

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Categories: railway, environment, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Railway Station
A once proud and busy place built to help the daily race, railway tracks, like welcoming arms always there day or night. Stationmaster always busy sweeping the platforms, picking up litter, tending to the flower gardens oh so proud of all his creations. Came the day such sad news, no longer needed what would he...

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Categories: railway, absence, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ole Eighty Seven
Ole Eighty-seven, rugged and vain, Serpentine on cold iron rails, Story filled with strength and pain, A legendary iron horse tale. World-renowned freight train of yesteryear, Lives ever in glory and fame, A roaring chain without peers, Ole Eighty-seven, her hailed nickname. An expression of past golden days, Its piercing whistle wailed and cried, In early morn misty haze, Slithering down the steep mountainside. Ole Eighty-seven,...

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Categories: railway, adventure, courage, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Beeching Halt
a stroll beneath this old stone bridge is a stroll through time and mist where remnants from another age and graffiti coexist. where nitreous oxide cannisters and weeds and grass combine to choke the past from the valley floor of its long lost railway line....

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Categories: railway, history, lost, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Railway Track
Rushing to the third class When I was a young student Undertaking train journeys Often looking for a window seat. Amid the track's rhythm Full of hope for the future I saw countryside and cities Leaving behind from the coach window. The hawkers' calls echoed Inside the compartment, A counter point to the beggars' songs, Their handicap a stark plea. A clatter of the wheels, Accompanied the train...

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Categories: railway, life,
Form: Free verse

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