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There are many ways to 'look at' trains and rail travel. It is therefore a pleasure to offer initial space to the very imaginative and talented Güntürk Üstün of Istanbul, Turkey. A former physician who, in retirement, has taken up pen and ink, he has sent us some short poems we are pround to present. Can you think of a better way to bridge gaps in the arts and world itself!!!

       RAILROAD TRIPLETS [Part-1]

             By Güntürk Üstün,  Istanbul

1
The passenger trains

Cannot taste the night

Without dining-cars

 

2

My beautiful and brainy railfan lady

Wherever you sleep in my train dreams

Our common passion for rail travel lies there

 

3

The railroad graveyards

Are more desolate

Than those of the railroaders

 

4

Where are the steam locomotives? They became history

What happened to the firemen? They followed their engines

Let us be together to keep all the railroad museums alive

 

5

Every incoming new year

For a railfan like me means a process

Full of travel, adventure and poetry

 

6

The established team

Of the dining-cars and sleepers

Is hard to beat in the long run

 

7

Major train towns

Are rich in railroad

History and heritage

 

8

Farewell to the classical clickety-clack

Of train wheels on rails

And welcome to their current murmur

 

9

I am the stainless steel

Patron of my own

Rail & roll verses

 

©Güntürk Üstün-2017

For further information on Gunturk, his poetry, books and  art check out this beautiful web page https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=3659

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If you are a poet and have written about trains and rail travel be in touch. We welcome contributions with one request:
Keep it short!

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