Homecoming

[oneighty]

A thousand people line the tracks
Back to nose and nose to back
All standing there waiting to see
That old steam train from way back then
That took our boys and made them men

And took them away for Hitler's war
Oh! We cheered them off
And we cried them back
Some on foot
And some in sacks.

From 'The Railroad'- the book I am never going to write.

[KaliTracy]

1. the ending of this choked me.... at first

I didn't know what to expect, and as my 5yr old eats, drinks, and breathes everything there is to know about trains my heart was light until the second stanza, where the truth of the course of the trains exists.

quite powerful.

[oneighty]

2. That too was a very long poem Kali

My Navy body is a RR buff.

He operates (Engineers) a steam train somewhere in southern Ohio or Northern Kentucky-a tourist sort of thing.

He also has a crew car. Along with a large group of crew car owners we rode the short lines in upper NY State. It was quite an adventure.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

3. I love

your poems

they stir the emotions