Tag Archives: Railroad

Locomotive [Limerick]

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Photograph of a steam engine locomotive taken in Tallinn, Estonia.
The man loved travel by locomotive.
 It was all of the time in the throat of
   tunnels, so dark and deep --
   one couldn't see a peep.
 He had night vision goggles... and motive.

Tree Hell [Tanka]

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pine cone wedged
 in a rotten sleeper,
  on derelict tracks,
 may become a tree
  and made into sleepers.

Troubled Bridge [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a railway bridge over the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Iron skeleton
   spans the water.

Weeds sprout from ties, 
   rust eats its way under 
       flaking paint & over
            rivet heads.
       
I remember the whistle's blow,
    a long, long time ago.

DAILY PHOTO: Chicago Rail Corridor

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Taken in Chicago in August of 2018