Where Are You?—Oh Great And Mighty Choo-choo: a quadrille poem.
Train track, Normans Bay | Photo: Lesley Scoble
Looking up and down the track
Forward and back
There is no sign of you
Where are you?
Oh great and mighty choo-choo.
Looking up and down the track
Forward and back
To left and right
Again…
no sound or sight
of a train.
LesleyScoble October 2022
Train track, Normans Bay (looking the other way) | Photo: Lesley Scoble
My poem Where Are You?—Oh Great And Mighty Choo-choo is written as a quadrille. A quadrille is a poem of only 44 words (not including the title). This week’s Dverse Pub prompt was to write a quadrille using the word ‘Track’. My thanks to Merrilldsmith for keeping me on track with the prompt.
Waiting for that train–the choo-choo makes it lighthearted. But maybe it’s a sort of existential thing–is there a train? Will it ever come? 😏
Thank you for responding to the prompt! (One “l” in Merril.)
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I’ve just had a holiday near this railway and I loved the occasional (not a busy line) distant sound of the choo-choo trains. Of course, the sound of the sea was better.
So glad you enjoyed it Tanmay.
Thank you ❤️🚂
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Waiting for that train–the choo-choo makes it lighthearted. But maybe it’s a sort of existential thing–is there a train? Will it ever come? 😏
Thank you for responding to the prompt! (One “l” in Merril.)
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Oops 😬 sorry Merrill,
Absolutely! It has deep existential meaning 😉
Thank you! 💕
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You’re welcome! 😊
–Merril.
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Hi Leslie 🙂 I like the simplicity of the moment, the anticipation/longing and how the train could mean so many different things we wait for.
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Thank you Amish 😊🙏I love your interpretation ❤️ Waiting for something that may never come 🚂
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Hehe! I love this. My old apartment was near a railway line, and those choo choo trains used to drive me mad. 🚋 🤯
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😁 🚂
I’ve just had a holiday near this railway and I loved the occasional (not a busy line) distant sound of the choo-choo trains. Of course, the sound of the sea was better.
So glad you enjoyed it Tanmay.
Thank you ❤️🚂
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