Tag: planes

For OctPoWriMo Day 29, the prompt is “what stories do you have about railroad tracks from your childhood? Write for ten minutes exploring the tracks.” The poetry format is an Octain Refrain. Abbac / cabA Abbad / dabA

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You walk, you wander, hands out distracted,

You ponder life’s questions, words unsaid.

One shoe in-front of the next, your head —

Down, thinking: “Don’t step off the track,

Or, you’ll fall and break your back.”

The railway tracks go for miles, detract —

From dust, pebbles, sky’s blank-grey; huge black —

Trains, steam hissing, iron rockets that sped.

You walk, you wander, hands out distracted.

You walk, you wander, hands out distracted,

Time interlaces, train rides where shredded,

Memories, rail-cars people hustling spread —

To present planes, replacing trains cast,

In time, coal shovelled, train whistles pulled.

While you balance on railway tracks hold,

Steady, look! Envision more than wood paths.

Labor, men hammering tracks to here led;

You walk, you wander, hands out distracted.

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