Short Freight Train Poems

rainy afternoon
the rumble of a freight train
from the edge of town...

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Freight train clattered by

over a tree lined viaduct  ~

golden oriole sings ....

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Dreaded dream killer
A freight train loaded with pain
Reduces heart to hope,
Though surviving, don't be fooled
To live, you've gotta move...

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A lady once hailed from Altoona.
A man on a freight train had mooned her.
      She speeded away
      With just this to say,
"Cold air from a crack is a boomer!"...

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There was a virile freight train from South Bend
A sexy caboose he dared to befriend --
   He said, "You're my dream"
   And let out some steam --
Then poured all his hot coals in her south end...

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Box cars a mile long, rolling all night headed West
                            Some full, some empty, all singing the same old song
                                    A Cadillac for The King Of The Road...

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Leaving on a freight train, don't know where I'm going
Hope I'm alive when I arrive with no bills owing
Halleluya debt free
Simpleness is the key
Spend little, enjoy much and be easygoing...

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Does anyone know how Jumbo The Elephant died?
Hit by a freight train, succumbed quickly, no dry eyes
Poor thing had no chance
His soul made a ghost dance
People around reacted with sadness, quietly cried...

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limerick

Have you heard why the farmer named Cork
commandeered a short freight train in York?
     When the hoboes from thar
     dared reclaim their hay car,
they discovered the pitch of Cork’s fork.

December 1, 2019
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It explodes with the force of a volcano,
It sucks with the strength of an undertoe,
It hits with the impact of a freight train,
It is also strong enough to bring rain,
It can summon mountains higher than the sky above,
It's an irresistable power.......called love...

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I’m like a freight train,

That holds everything everyone needs.

That is rusty and old and slow,

And loud and annoying and gets in the way.

But never gives up.

And always brings cargo that will one day belong to someone else.

Cargo that will one day belong....

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So, the Old Cat and I were talking this morning. We were in the kitchen. No one else was awake. I was enjoying my first cuppa and he was grooming. We came to the conclusion that Life Is What It Is: Run like mad from the oncoming freight train, and never neglect a nice spot of sunshine....

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I hate being hurt, why
don't you repent?
When everything is going wrong
I need a picker- uper, like a drug.
Another hang up, is a trial as 
ongoing as a freight train.
These broken memories are on my
mind, to seek and you will find.
Sometimes, living is not easy,
is well worth it....

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Like a freight train
She barrels in
And slams upon the shore
Bringing all her treasured gifts
Up from the ocean floor
Randomly choosing 
she makes a deposit
As if purging her depths
Or cleaning her closet
Then passively leaves
The feisty debater
Will reclaim her trove
When she returns later...

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My limbs grow weak from the weight I carry. 
The grave is deep and I’m feeling buried. 
I try my best to raise my head. 
Body already feeling dead. 
I do what I can to make it through. 
Never giving up is what I will do. 
Exhaust hits hard like a freight train. 
Better yet like a bullet to the brain....

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You are a shadow
Outside in the timber

Dancing as a wicked virgin,
You throw me like a

Kitten against a farmer`s wall,
Or wait like a freight train

In the night, frozen under
Stars, haloed with steam;

And when your drained face
Is flightingly seen at distance;

More outside; grace unknown....

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A clown car or an elevator?
A forest or a meadow?
Sad or happy?
The choice is yours.

Pink polka dots or Linen Gray?
A kitchen accident or a freight train?
Joyfulness or Melancholy?
The choice is yours.

A magical kingdom or a jail cell?
Pie or cheese?
Excitement or Boredom?
The choice is yours....

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I am the tiger whose eyes are inflamed with anger
I am that blackest of black that is empty but full of our shadows
I am the flood that washes you away with my waves
I am the wonderer that wonders why you
I am a freight train whose sounds, drowns all the sounds you make
I am not listening although I'm in front of you...

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branch        burdened with snow

           long winter

      we    wait





“Storm of the Century”  Minneapolis, Minnesota
12/11/10
5:10 pm
“Roads Closed”…… City Plows pulled off the streets! “White-Out” Blizzard! I walked ½ block 
to the indoor track and it was like walking towards a runaway freight- train!...

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clever wind
she does not show us her cards
keeping them close to her vest

she lures us in
a sense of peace
starting out calm and breezy

She picks up speed
the trees are swaying
I wonder, but she calms it down again, showing nothing

during the next lull
I hear a freight train, except louder
knowing it is her, I head toward the basement...

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The freight train of time,
speeding through the years.
Hold on for dear life,
shifting through the gears.

The landscape rolls on,
under a blue sky.
A breath-taking view,
brings tears to the eye.

Loved ones jumping off,
taking hearts along.
With no fare thee well,
Just up and then gone.

This train going where?
Come on if you dare!

date:1/31/22...

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words left un-spoken
tears left un-cried
thoughts i keep hidden
deep inside
I don't belong here with you
sorry to waste your time
the thoughts run through my head one last time
like a freight train
it keeps me sane
but once again here i am
alone with the pain
why should we fight
whats the point
the past is over 
things never change
thanks to you my whole life was re-aranged...

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Left to die in this wasteland of you and I 
I can’t let go of you and I 
  
Like a freight train 
Rolling off the tracks 
Dammed if I do Dammed if I don't 
  
I have dammed forever you and I 
  
Like a thousand years 
Rage is all I feel 
Through these tears 
I long for you and I 

To feel your breath one more time 
To look into your soul one last time 
I cannot live 
I cannot die...

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Southbound tracks of opportunity with dreams flying by
He pushed on through the hills so that she might survive
gripping tight in all hope, the train rolled on out of sight
with a longing and a brush of abstract strokes she creates their life 
she painted her longing as each soul passed her by
waiting for a return of a man on a cold winters night


Rose Piper 
Painting~"Slow down freight train"...

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Felt like a freight train drove through
The most loving corner of my heart
Then it felt as though I were in it
Falling out the other side
No dignity or moral to the fall 
Just a fall
When it seemed over and quiet
I stood
Smiled
Felt like a freight train drove through
The most loving corner of my heart
Then it felt as though I were in it
Falling out the other side
No dignity or moral to the fall 
Just a fall...

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