Poems About Trains Seeking Honest Critique
#trains
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:48pm
Yesterday 5:48pm
Art, Decay, Seeing in Perspective
I ride subways often
Most stations are acceptable
Then there’s the L Train
Union Square
14th Street
Crimes against cleanliness
Old tile walls
They will never be repaired
Disgraceful
Yet …
There’s beauty too
A wall so tired and beyond salvation
An artist like myself captures it
Presents it for your viewing pleasure
Most stations are acceptable
Then there’s the L Train
Union Square
14th Street
Crimes against cleanliness
Old tile walls
They will never be repaired
Disgraceful
Yet …
There’s beauty too
A wall so tired and beyond salvation
An artist like myself captures it
Presents it for your viewing pleasure
#art
#philosophical
#dirty
#trains
#WritingPoetry
52 reads
12 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
27th Mar 2024 1:31am
27th Mar 2024 1:31am
as for rush hour
catching a train is like catching a cold, which you probably will, since the train is usually packed with the coughing and the sweating and the generally ill
#trains
48 reads
3 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
12th Mar 2024 12:34pm
12th Mar 2024 12:34pm
The Train Kept A Rollin
A teenage girl somewhere anywhere was busy text messaging friends on her cell phone a month ago.
She was walking along a set of railroad tracks.
Although deaf since birth, she had frequently proclaimed that she could avoid danger more easily then hearing people.
She was much more sensitive to vibrations, especially from approaching trains and those roaring train whistles.
She was wrong.
She was mangled beyond recognition.
They were able to identify the body, since her i-phone survived the collision.
She was walking along a set of railroad tracks.
Although deaf since birth, she had frequently proclaimed that she could avoid danger more easily then hearing people.
She was much more sensitive to vibrations, especially from approaching trains and those roaring train whistles.
She was wrong.
She was mangled beyond recognition.
They were able to identify the body, since her i-phone survived the collision.
#technology
#motivational
#LifeChangingMoment
#tragedy
#trains
82 reads
6 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
9th Feb 2024 1:19am
9th Feb 2024 1:19am
can’t explain it
everyone loves a steam train
maybe they’re not good for the planet, what with all that coal, but they warm
my soul, I can’t explain it
maybe they’re not good for the planet, what with all that coal, but they warm
my soul, I can’t explain it
#trains
#PopCulture
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dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
30th Jan 2024 00:45am
30th Jan 2024 00:45am
mind the gap
the announcer says mind the
gap between the train and the platform and I do
I mind it very much
as I’m scared I won’t make it and there’s always the danger
of a very major
mishap ..
gap between the train and the platform and I do
I mind it very much
as I’m scared I won’t make it and there’s always the danger
of a very major
mishap ..
#trains
#PopCulture
67 reads
2 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
28th Jan 2024 00:20am
28th Jan 2024 00:20am
dunno where this is going
your ticket is for winchester
but this train isn’t
well one of them’s wrong ..
but this train isn’t
well one of them’s wrong ..
#trains
46 reads
1 Comment
cabcool
Poem Published
13th Dec 2023 11:48pm
13th Dec 2023 11:48pm
train ride
cross-country journey on the tracks
[No. 8 from The Children’s Collection]
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of
history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
♫chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku
chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku
chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku
chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku♫
round the mountainside the engine comes,
hi-hat cymbals lighting up the drums;
at the bog walk tunnel she dissolves;
at the latter end she re-evolves.
...
[No. 8 from The Children’s Collection]
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of
history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
♫chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku
chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku
chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku
chu-ku-tu-ku / tu-ku-tu-ku♫
round the mountainside the engine comes,
hi-hat cymbals lighting up the drums;
at the bog walk tunnel she dissolves;
at the latter end she re-evolves.
...
#countryside
#river
#nature
#travel
#trains
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0 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
6th Nov 2023 00:11am
6th Nov 2023 00:11am
since we’re all calling life a journey these days ..
travel by train has always seemed
to me the best way of writing about life, the monotonous journeys, the
frequent delays, the cancellations, leading to unexpected stays in hurriedly booked hotels in those never
intended destinations; but as well, there’s always those who will help one up and down from the train when they
see the struggle it entails, and it’s for them I intend to never again go off, as one might put it, he said, the rails ..
to me the best way of writing about life, the monotonous journeys, the
frequent delays, the cancellations, leading to unexpected stays in hurriedly booked hotels in those never
intended destinations; but as well, there’s always those who will help one up and down from the train when they
see the struggle it entails, and it’s for them I intend to never again go off, as one might put it, he said, the rails ..
#trains
129 reads
1 Comment
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
4th Aug 2023 12:29pm
4th Aug 2023 12:29pm
Here I Am Ready To Catch The Last Train
I do not believe this!
Here I am ready to
catch the last train
home and it left the
station before I got
the chance to get
on that locomotive!
Here I am ready to
catch the last train
home and it left the
station before I got
the chance to get
on that locomotive!
#home
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#dialogue
#trains
90 reads
2 Comments
Ald
Poem Published
28th May 2023 10:33am
28th May 2023 10:33am
Samir rj.
I dream of us.
#technology
#cars
#music
#trains
#job
121 reads
0 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
8th May 2023 9:00pm
8th May 2023 9:00pm
Tunnels
Having sunk to the bottom, to the trains,
you manage to get into the last car,
and stand against the window;
starts dancing overboard.
But it’s not the seams of the tunnel that flash,
but it’s not the networks of wires that run,
take a closer look - this is how time passes,
take a closer look - this is how the years fly.
And already in the dark reflection,
a larger-sized silhouette stands,
it’s good that you can’t see how
painful it is.
It's good that flickering
behind dark glass erases...
you manage to get into the last car,
and stand against the window;
starts dancing overboard.
But it’s not the seams of the tunnel that flash,
but it’s not the networks of wires that run,
take a closer look - this is how time passes,
take a closer look - this is how the years fly.
And already in the dark reflection,
a larger-sized silhouette stands,
it’s good that you can’t see how
painful it is.
It's good that flickering
behind dark glass erases...
#depression
#apathy
#LifeStruggles
#LifeCycle
#trains
506 reads
32 Comments
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