Temptation Train: 315 Experiment Poem 8/3/07
thought this might be a good one for today’s Polar Express Poetry Train… it’s from the 2007 
315 Experiment…while you’re here, hope you will scroll down and read Kathleen Lynch’s phenomenol poem, Impetus, and I posted a brand new poem earlier this week also that I hope you’ll check out!
August 3
Temptation the train whistles
loud long lonely
journeys south to north
jumps out of the way of
fast north south train
moon glides over
bounces off metal, window
once in awhile
Two short whistles
another train sounds
when 3 whistles
all clear? all done? all gone?
The roar of temptation
a buzz at first
grows louder closer
drowns out everything else
Temptation rolled through
I will take its wind now
can stand the rocks
I don’t listen to its siren song
I step out of temptation’s way
roll down the embankment
make it home for dinner
ignore its shrieking brakes
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Temptation can surely hit you like a train!! And you have to be strong to walk of it someday! Greatly done!
This makes me think of this song we used once in spin class, that was sounds of a train yard or something… trains coming, going, and us pedalling, pedalling like there was no tomorrow… temptation to quit right there but the whistles urging us on…
Very cool.
moon glides over
bounces off metal, window
once in awhile
great 3:15 poem, Gwendolyn. I don’t think I’ve read this one before.
love this too
Temptation rolled through
I will take its wind now
I am often tempted by trains… to ride off…
(good to be back, btw)
Loved this. It is a thoughtful poem.