Travelling in rocking carriages
Through rambling forests and meadow lands
Under walls and mountains
Over bridges that span rivers and canals.
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Stillness and silence
Embracing the occasion
Constant and continuous
The spectacular view.
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In the brief busyness of light
Through a narrow corridor and half-open door
Taste the smoke of the present
Anticipate the promise of tomorrow and arrival.
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Pleasure and pain
Hope comes into view
Identity and inspiration
Separation vanishes away
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Written for Poetry Jam
Life From A Park Bench 
There is always so much to anticipate when one is on a train journey. Your poem makes me think about the joy of arrival & about a new beginning after a long journey.
You convey, beautifully, a sense of passages and change and contradiction and “the promise of tomorrow” – an allegory, I’m thinking, to one’s journey through life.
I like the life journey you describe, Alan, the forests, meadow lands, mountains and bridges. I also enjoyed the hopeful note at the end!
I like the rhythm of your poem Alan. I would imagine there are many very beautiful train trips in England. I like the metaphor as well.
the smoke of the present…anticipating tomorrow…liked that section….i love the comfort in the rock of the train…the rhtyhm of it….great opening stanza…
I like the different scenes from the moving window train ~ I’m always anticipating the promise of tomorrow & arrival ~
‘taste the smoke of the present, anticipate the promise of tomorrow and arrival’ – love these lines!