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Railroad Track Poems - Poems about Railroad Track

Premium Member Prayer Lifted for my Husband
... Last night I had a worried thought Come coursing to my mind Of my husband having car trouble ......

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Categories: railroad track, power, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whiskey, Women, and Song
...A young man, barely twenty-one, On the town in search of fun. The wrong side of the railroad track And somehow never made it back. A pickup truck, a black guitar… I thought that they would tak......

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Categories: railroad track, song, women,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Vendetta Machine
... Vendetta machine scammed me again I put in a buck fifty for a dime of chocolate it fired back with nothing but disgust. The metal hook just wouldn't let go wiggling it in front of my greasy no......

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Categories: railroad track, dark, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Future Self
... A photo of my past reveals a pattern Like a stroll that one would unfold; Like a one-way forward railroad track, Portraying rather interesting facts and Saying to all that, usually, I did not......

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Categories: railroad track, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh Christ! The Train's a Comin'
... The rash upon my wrist awaits the railroad track Nail to penetrate my flesh ......

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Categories: railroad track, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member House by The Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper 1301
..."Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Though I may influence genius, t......

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Categories: railroad track, horror,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Dead End Street
... At the dead-end street or cul-de-sac stands a tall silver lamp pole, And a portable basketball hoop. I wish I could say there lives not a single soul. What if the lamp pole sat on a game board ......

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Categories: railroad track, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Train Wreck
...Old Number 9 was heading down the line, All clickety clack on the railroad track. It was making time, looking so sublime, Wore a coat of black on its iron back. Going round the bend, moving at ......

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Categories: railroad track, car, fate, travel,
Form: Rhyme
A Child of the '60s
...I remember the green grass, leaves of the trees turning brown. Walking down the stream not caring that gold lay at the bottom. Fishing at the dam a stick a string and a hook loaded with bologna. L......

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Categories: railroad track, child, childhood, conflict, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Waiting At the Crossroads
...I stare at the blues and oranges of the world refusing to be pressured there is such beauty in everyday things even the railroad track signs how many people have gone past this site without ......

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Categories: railroad track, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Will You Find a Groom
...Daisies came courting I gave them a whack Next was a bum From the railroad track I chased him off with my trusty broom “How will you ever find a groom?” My mother chastised me high and low “......

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Categories: railroad track, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
...Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing... thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast (methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web, but now still smarting from selfishne......

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Categories: railroad track, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Whistle
...Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion, The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from the United Kingdom, by......

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Categories: railroad track, analogy, farewell, history, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Leaving Town
...Three steps forward and two steps back Fifteen miles down a railroad track Walking from misery in a no-good world A no good job and a no-good girl Leaving disgraced in other men’s eyes Troubled ......

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Categories: railroad track, change, conflict, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Leo Kate Rose and Jack 2
...Cutting a path Along a railroad track Through desert grass With no scenery at all Apart from passing a barren dry oasis Because everything else is nothing but dunes and sand as fa......

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Categories: railroad track, adventure,
Form: Free verse

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