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An Occasional Verse is Poetry for the Everyday Poet. A website devoted to enabling poets easy access to publishing their occasional verse, poetry collections, poems, lyrics, odes, songs and sonnets. Starting with the ability to post their own work on anoccasionalverse.com and even going as far as starting your own poetry website.
We are still working to make An Occasional Verse easy to use but as you can now easily register and begin uploading your own poetry. The collections option is also now working. When you log in you will have the ability to Add a Collection. Then when you go to upload your Poems you can pick from your collections.
As of 04/21/2005 you can't search or list based on the Category but we are working on that also. We appreciate your patience while we make this the best poetry website available on the web.
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| Today's Poem - 02/08/2010 |
Nowhere Train - Viewed 285 Times
| David Devaney Website January 07, 1998 |
I took a ride the other day Upon the Nowhere Train And found a sunrise window seat My trip was not in vain
I left the station with a jerk And headed south, southwest My destination desert towns Beyond the mountain’s crest
I circled round its precipice Then passed through tunnels long The engines three did make the grade For they were diesel strong
Then quick the darkness disappeared As Eden I did find Imagined beauty everywhere And life was being kind
With desert flowers growing wild The cactus fully dressed Hillside rabbits multiplied God’s handiwork impressed Chorus This train was going nowhere When Heaven’s Gate was found A Nowhere Train to Paradise And I was Heaven Bound Yes I was Heaven bound
Then new horizons brought to view A cowboy history The Wild West behind the sun Is what I came to see
An old church steeple first I spied Did dominate the scene With whitewashed sides of wood antique Its graveyard yellow green
The old coral was rickety Still horses it restrained The blacksmith bathed in constant sweat Steel shoes his shop contained
A General Store with souvenirs Of quick draw gunfight times A red hotel with hour rooms When trysts were not yet crimes
A wooden walkway everywhere A stagecoach and a jail A mystic place by time preserved Beside the desert rail
Then back aboard my timeless ride The sunset was my goal The clickety clacking of the train Had touched my very soul Chorus My train was going nowhere When Heaven’s Gate was found A Nowhere Train to Paradise And I was Heaven bound Yes I was Heaven bound | | © 1998 David Devaney |
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