Short Choo Choo Poems

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chonky choo choo pouf
chunky is cool, funky.
sorta art deco, style
puffy, fluffy and comfy,
ardent, like fluffy slippers!...

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The train whistle puffs
Frail familiarity
A world passes by
Muffled train sounds die away
White clouds of smoke drift behind...

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The joy in my heart can't be explained
Sorta like when you get your first choo-choo train
Well I stand up to pee
Discovered have no teats
Which made sense, started combing my mane...

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"Toot Toot" says the choo choo train.
I think I can, I think I can,
but then again,
perchance it's much too soon
to be going far too fast 
for the downhill lane.
"Toot Toot" here I come,
whatsoever!...

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I'm way down the track, eighty-five by golly
But my choo-choo has yet to run off the trolley
Still eat by myself
I'm in pretty good health
Still charm the pants off some cute young dollies...

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I'm way down the track, over eighty by golly
But my choo-choo has yet to run off the trolley
Still eat by myself
I'm in pretty good health
Still charm the pants off some cute young dollies...

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Yogi and Boo Boo
catching a choo choo

going to the zoo
since cartoons are through













Writer's note: This came to me last week I was so inspired I even got 2 tee shirts made with that poem on them for my wife and I....

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I'm way down the track, almost eighty by golly
But my choo-choo hasn't yet run off the trolley
Still eat by myself
I'm in pretty good health
Still charm the pants off some cute young dollies


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Hopping on the me too choo choo
Generated a lot of power
By many who were wronged it's true
But could that mighty power sour?

Some might join for easy money
A case or two already haunt
The me too choo choo could derail
And nobody gets what they want!...

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Their silver nightclub microphones were mega-big, giant size I’d say
Three sensuous singing goldfish stepped up to sing the night away
They started with Chattanooga Choo Choo which always makes me cry
Ending up with a hearts and flower song where some creepy guppies die....

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on a red dirt road
choo-choo trains
puff puff
as a child plays in the dust

golden are his childish eyes
blond will be his mustache
when he drives
a corvette
along
this same red dirt 

Ma and Pa
keep a dog pack
in a small holding of heaven now

he will not find his choo-choo train...

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R ed River Valley and Southern
A labama Tennessee
I llinois Central
L ouisiana Southern
R io Valley Switching
O regon Pacific
A llegheny Valley
D enver Rock Island

T exas Pacifico
R ochester and Southern
A lamo Gulf Coast
C arolina Coastal
K ansas City Southern
S eminole Gulf


                All Aboard !...

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CAROUSEL

carousel
this familiar tune
sounds so weird

merry go round?
no!
this thing    off by itself

carousel
every full time round
this odd face

carousel
choo choo whistles
frightening dissonance

carousel
off by itself
timeless riders

carousel
out of time
distant coaster rumbles

carousel
different time
different place...

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Poet Vehicles Used

Or is that second hand?

What’s yours? 
Chaucer trotted on a horse
John Betjeman via choo choo trains
The knowledgeable Omar Khayyam by camel
Well my preferred transport a fast motorbike
Am I mad or are we all mad?


Poet vehicles not used in this piece:  Rhyme, rhetorical devices, and patience!...

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Choo, Choo!

Trains
Go fast
Transporting
People and goods
To diverse places
Where men have built the rails
Throughout countries of the world
Vacation tours on trains are fun.
Urban or rural, it matters not.
The Choo, choo, trains singsround the bend... Whooah! whooah!

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 24, 2010

Poetic form:  Etheree...

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I'm on the train
without a destination
I'm just heading out
out to nowhere
I watch the trees out the window
and I dream of better times
The train is chugging along
choo choo a choo choo
My crying tears
I miss my old life
but to a new place I'll be heading
Look at me in the train
watch me go
I dance the dance
and I go where the train goes
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Watching the Mets
I fell relaxed 
I have always been 
a fan of thiers 
I remember Al, Sean Green, Choo Choo Coleman and of course 
the one of a kind Casy Stengel 
The Mets pitcher just walked someone 
in the fourth inning 
I am at my mother's place 
I think she doesn't care about the game 
except of course the World Series 
I'll be a baseball star 
in my next life...

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Little hands and little feet.
A precious gift for us to keep.

Close your eyes and dream sweet dreams;
of candy canes and choo choo trains.

Little Angel, spread your wings and fly.
Mother will sing you a lullaby.

Like a thief in the night; you stole my heart.
A prisoner of love, Till death due we part.

Little hands and little feet. 
A precious gift for us to keep....

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Colorful vegetables are so good for you
Colorful dining when served cordon bleu
Colorful melons, I just love honeydew
Colorful candies that I love to chew
Colorful cocktails I’ll sip one or two
Colorful rainbows so pretty to view
Colourful skin inking, it’s called a tattoo
Colorful steam train, I hear it choo choo
Colorful language – the air can turn blue!...

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Had an old Cadillac and a gal named Ann
And I played fiddle in a travelin' band
I loved my Ann and a dog named Yeller
They ran off with a yodelin' feller

I woke up this mornin' on a choo choo train
Bound for Amarillo in the pourin' rain
Starin' out the window started me thinkin'
It's gonna be this way 'til I quit drinkin'


3-22-19
Contest:Wk 4, March 2019, Max 8 Lines
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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The mish now buried in the mash,
  the dog caught rooting through the trash

With litter scattered far and wide,
  the pieces gather, the Cheshire hides

All lollygaggers out in front,
  those last now first, a noble stunt

The blend what’s vital, layers bake,
  Choo Choo Mamma—Potpourri Babycakes

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
…written while listening to ‘Come Together’
 by the Beatles...

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The Erie Lackawanna.
Was a friendly mamma! 
The friendly service route.
Ran across the Southern Tier of New York.
Then across the Susquehanna.
Choo Choo went the train.
Down along the lower part of the state.
The great flood of 72...
Caused a bankrupt attitude, to date.
Now the tracks, they lay at rest.
Silencing all..by whos rails they quest..

Railroad Poem By Kim Robin Edwards
Copyright 2009,2014..
All rights reserved.....

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You become still.
The pain freezes.
Your head, eyes and toes
play dead to calm the blood.

Only leafy branches
hum in your ears
as if they were soothing
those pulsing veins.

Choo, choo!
Locomotive echoes through the night
and resists to go any further.

The rails cry stridently,
as if they wanted to turn back.

My mind falls apart.

I lie cold stars upon my head,
let myself become still again.

Don't know for how long.
I give in....

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The Christmas Choo Choo is coming around the bend.
The joy she gives to children simply cannot end.
We are happy to see her, she brings such enjoyment to us.
She’ll be here in a minute, chugging on the railroad truss.

The Christmas Choo Choo is coming. She’ll be here in a bit.
She makes our hearts go pitty pat, she throws some into a fit.
I love everything about her; she makes me excited as a nitwit.
The Christmas Choo Choo is here. More later, now I sit....

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We boarded for the long ride on that train -
It brought back memories of being young.
Conductor: "Passengers will please refrain!"
Now 'City of New Orleans' on each tongue,
We sang through all those train songs we'd once sung:
The 'Loco-Motion', 'Marrakesh Express',
Then 'Peace Train', 'Love Train', 'Crazy Train' (a mess!)
We sang, 'Last Train to Clarksville' just for fun
And 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' (more or less!)
"We're gone 500 miles when day is done"....

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