Take a ride on the Gravy Train,
clickerty-clack on the track to a gain,
wealth and fortunes to a destination with no name,
no signals to stop, forgetting the station from whence we came.
The journey of a lifetime, seeing love in money,
hands in the pots, grabbing all the honey,
no time to taste the sweetness, collecting all the jars,
blinded to the sidings, filled with rusty cars.
Looking out the window, see the years whizzing by,
still stoking up the furnace, driven to be the fastest to fly,
racing with all the locos, missing all of natures beautiful shows,
messengers with no message, answers only the devil knows.
Coming to the end of the track, alas no brakes,
crashing into oblivion, ego is all it takes,
all the wealth piled high, smoldering in a heap,
going round in circles, in the abyss of the deep, mankind begins to weep.
If only love can be found, but where do we look,
born in happiness, then consumed in misery, because fate overtook,
bliss is waiting quiet and still, for us to switch on the power,
Time to use our own free will, arriving on Spirit’s Hour.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Far Within Us #7 by Vasko Popa
- An Imitation of Spenser by William Blake
- Faces by Satish Verma
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- Вера Павлова – Время уступать место
- The Hesitating Veteran poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives by Sylvia Plath
- Winter by Shaunna Harper
- 12 Surefire Brainstorming Techniques
- To R. B. poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- My first seen by Osman cisse Hanif
- Владимир Степанов – Весёлый транспорт
- Robert Burns: Address Of Beelzebub: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Highland Society, which met on the 23rd of May last at the Shakespeare, Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the Society were informed by Mr. M’Kenzie of Applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of Mr. Macdonald of Glengary to the wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing-Liberty.
- A Performance At Hog Theater by Russell Edson
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
