Short Locomotive Poems

Locomotive 
charges down street
tornado...

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locomotive roar
	tornado’s deadly path
	Oklahoma Spring...

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Steam powered steel wheels,
pushing pistons in cycles
of captured time....

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Wild locomotive
leaping off of the track's edge,
feral thoughts grow wings...

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He rides the locomotive

bringing tons of coal for industry

does he know he can be king?...

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my locomotive
pulls you with

you at the end
a red caboose

steamingly
blowing my

whistle...

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More durable, one's word
  than a powerful locomotive --

Fashions bonds of steel,
  oaths and vows, steadfast, votive...

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In 1821 began by S&DR
the world commenced to travel by railwaycar
Pulled by No 1,the very first locomotive
& christened by Stephenson&Co ....the Active...

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   a dense fog 
    followed the rain

   like the billowing steam
    of a locomotive train 

   yet the fog never left me
    just denser, insane

...

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Great locomotive
Blowing glorious whistle
Rumbling down the tracks
Leaving sense of longing peace
With rhythms greatest moments

Russell Sivey...

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Superman is--
     'faster than a speeding bullet'
      'more powerful than a locomotive'
       'able to leap tall buildings at a single bound'
~ How about updating these a bit?...

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Scanning through my memories of times now long past.

I cannot recall a more sorrowful, lonesome sound. 

Than the late night, wailing, mournful moan of a distant steam whistle blast.

As a huge steam locomotive bids farewell on its way out of town....

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Thoughts of her rob my slumber.
She burglarizes my rest.
She pervades my life,
into my dreams.
She is the locomotive
derailing my train of thought.
I have no reign over myself.
My infatuation grows daily.
In this I lose control
as I watch my heart wander....

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None can guess the darkening pain
Dull and aching it is
Emotive and locomotive
It keeps me never at ease

Disease to rhyme with universe
When ready it is to cry
Maimed at the mere sight
Of evil, winning as the spy!

Honorable mention in Sara's contest : My Quiet Place...

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There is a vortex in every locomotive
that is at once inert and in moto perpetuo
Beneath that vortex lies a feeling, a veritable
epicenter of grief from which springs the only
real compliment to sentient life and to which
our species has attached the name of suffering....

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I like cars, trucks,
and shiny airplanes.
I like helicopters, buses,
and locomotive trains.

I like lions, zebras,
and elephants too!
I like rhinos, hippos,
and giraffes are cool.

I like guitars, drums, 
and all my toys!
I love playing and pretending,
like most little boys!...

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look up in the sky information in the air able to leap over tall buildings information everywhere more speed than a locomotive more bytes than a mosquito stuffing my box
cramming my brain hope it will rain to slow it down for a nano-second so that I can take a 
breath knowing that the machine can’t breathe           yet!...

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His charm shovels dust in the mouth of her inhibition,
as if it were coal in the heart of a locomotive. 
Smiles and shot glasses shine in the dark,
as music blurs the edges of comfort
and it’s origin.
She can’t help but accept his offer,
…lust in a dirty glass.
"Let’s get out of here.."
-James Kelley 2013, All rights reserved....

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Feelings have a way of coming back
even when the memories lack,
the vividness of our circumstantial remains
doused innumerable times by our tangible frames,
you're here today, perusing this strife;
you're here today carving a locomotive strife,
you're there today, being here doesn't suffice.

you're back here today wondering
about the cost sacrificed!...

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1:30 am, sitting in a chair
Staring at an empty screen
Thinking about my life
The beginning and the end 
The happened and going to happen
The mysteries on the tracks in-between

Through the wall, I hear a locomotive call 
Crying in the night like a banshee
I wonder about the engineer
His thoughts, his life, his story
Is he lost too? 
Is he lonely like me?...

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Dickey Doo is overdue.
Through this town, his train is passing through.
His sweetheart wants him back again.
However, there’s a slow locomotive at the front of the train.
As he hears the wheels go click-clack click-clack,
he impatiently wants to get his woman back.
The pace of his transportation is not that great.
I don’t blame him for not liking to wait.
...

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when the sky falls down
                               branches covered in white joy -
                                    ice needles in beard


                                 white smoke from the nose
                             the cold through the shoe soles -
                                      steam locomotive








09.12.2022
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved...

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That girl was always such an itch
She affected me deep down
In a place I could never scratch

She made my heart eat
Faster than a locomotive
Yet it was never ever satisfied

There is a missing room
That sweeps through my memories
We had spent many hours there

I thought she was right
She illuminated the room
Yet I was covered in her darkness

She could not lend
Her thoughts too precious
We were always oil and water...

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Feelings;
 sweet,
 nice,
 illogical,
 undescribable
 My heart beats
 faster than a locomotive
 with no stop
 She doesn't need a token
 to get on this ride
 It doesn't matter though
 I can go slower
 I can go faster
 I can shine myself up
 to look all nice and pretty,
 but she won't get on this ride
 No matter how loud my engine howls,
 No matter how loud my horn screams,
 she won't get on this ride....

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A locomotive crying out
As it hurtles down life’s tracks--
Sounds like soul to me;

Or the wind whispering
On every blade of grass
Dipping toes in every pond;

Or the diamond that we keep
In caves too dark and deep 
For any intruder to excavate;

Or the sermons of the Reverend Al Green;
Or the Force that guides and heals;
Or the reason for existence…

The soul, that which outlasts all else,
Sounds like the sweetest steam engine
In a myriad web of rails....

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