Poetry: The railroad 48 Articles

by Victoria Rose Perkins

The Unknown Destination The sound of the distant whistle stirred a long ago memory, awakening his elderly and weary mind. Back to when life was good, the pace was slow and people were always kind. His thoughts...read more

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by Harry Youtt

TRAINS GOING EVERYDAY SOMEWHERE I used to watch the trains go everyday somewhere roaring along through my town, without even slowing down. At night I would think about how they got to where they were going, ...read more

by Norma Jean Bishop

The Railroad The night train pulls out in a cloud of smoke With a whistle and a whee-he-hee. I slip between the sheets of my trim berth Rocking in a cradle of nowhere. Dawn breaks and the train crawls into a mou...read more

by Sandra Lynn

Iron rails, Laid down with sweat, Mountains moved, Steep passes made, In the blistering heat, or, The cold dawn of day; Men broke their backs, To clear the way, Shovels, picks and axes, Forging through all impasse...read more

by Morton Templeton

The Railroad clickity clack clickity clack moving on down these tracks. dinner car, club car, family car, sleeping car, even observation deck, a chugging moving city. clickity clack clickity clack moving on...read more

by Arabella Kelly

Christmas time meant shopping and a trip to Baltimore. Some strange law unwritten ruled out any local store. My father worked, so he could not just drive us in the car. The train would take us traveling to Baltimore afa...read more

by Linda Armstrong

Twin rails crept across the continent, in the wake of the Civil War, replacing an endless train of schooners that rutted the prairies and left crosses in mountain passes. Iron horses that charged along th...read more

by Jennifer Smith

DEATH TRAIN Don't leave me here to die. I've come so far and my pants have holes in the knees from hiding. I'm one of your untouched untouchables I'm forgotten based on principal But I am still fighting. Yes, I'...read more

by C. L. Craven

"Tracks of Time" We walked along the tracks of time The missing ties torn from the line And dreamed of long ago When life depended on the stop With whistle blowing and hissing steam Passengers hurry to their seat...read more

by Raven Storme

He walked along the railroad track the sun in his eyes, the wind at his back, He had his Walkman turned up high listening to his music with his face to the sky, He always walked the tracks alone only this day he nev...read more

by Melissa Uzumcuoglu

THREE TRAINS (A bright color in a dull life) In a dimly lit, little room, colorless, packed with acrid smells, forgotten objects, anemic habits and faces, I discovered that everything looked the same: ...read more

by Akshata Shanbhag

It just goes on and on And never seems to end, It marches forward purposefully And never seems to bend. It reaches out to the horizon, Paying heed only to its own heart, It troops on relentlessly, Even if the worl...read more

by Bobby Coles

Home to many a tall tale The railroad remains impervious Drivel seldom gets stale The cars hold secretive thoughts That they shall never utter Home to some devious plots The life of a hobo or tramp Jumping from rail...read more

by Ted Onulak

I constantly travel between then and now Passing stations in a blur The details of the road dimming in the twilight There were times I sat comfortably Stylish and aloof Times when I ran next to the train Desperatel...read more

by MsRose

With a book in one hand, he carried A small cloth sack in the other. He hopped the moving train. On to new land, he would farm. Through the night, he slipped away. Another train has come his way. Build a house in t...read more

by Chris Kling

Too often in life we forget to think, make our decisions without e'en a blink. We don't look ahead to where we aim, we just get on that runaway train. We choose the depot, that determines the tracks, we buy the tick...read more

by Wayne K. Wilkins

Rugged old railroad is taking me away, On a journey far off, so far from home to a land so distant, The trucks are riding, seemingly endless along this one-way highway, Yet this train of steam chugs and chugs and chugs,...read more

by Lilli Friday

Spiral Here's a house in a spiral with a cat at the door, a teacher by the door dreaming of telling off naughty girls, a chaplain at the side of the road with a sacred psalm, a litter based cauldron where a h...read more

by Carol Natoli

The good old-fashioned railroad.. I'd wait at the tracks and wait for the trains to fly by... wondering where people were going... to spend their waking day, I'd sigh. I'd never cross the tracks... I was t...read more

by K.C. Jean Kellam

Into the forgotten distance of time Against the heat of the day on feet set to dream forever Walk forever Ride for lifetimes unfinished and reasons unknown For the sound of life in the distance Of peace of mind and he...read more