Not quite like peepers at night,
Railroad critters have their own light…
G.E.’s tend to whine
On their owner’s dime,
With short cuts of cars they fight!
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The twenty-five tonner “dinky”
Exhaust tends toward stinky…
Smoke in the eyes
Is no surprise,
At times blue smoke turns inky!
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When old, oft put on display,
Costs more to scrap anyway…
Does its job
With no hobnob,
From the big trains’ right of way!
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–Jonathan Caswell
JESUS WEEPS…!
(An opinion piece)
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For all the children eaten,
For all His people beaten…
At least they’ll see
Eternity
Away from life so fleeting.
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Those who sit by,
Should hear the tortured cry…
Of a god and his raiders,
Hateful invaders,
Who make victims want to die!
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“Progressives” who don’t care a whit,
Yawn saying “get on with it”…
So we can win
Not looking at sin,
“That doesn’t bother us one bit.”
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They call themselves upright,
But that won’t wash tonight…
Jesus weeps
While a ruler keeps
His vacation schedule tight.
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–Jonathan Caswell
(An opinion piece—of the Poet and those who truly care for others—photo ops. not withstanding!)
FAR MORE THAN DECORATION
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Mention the woman’s name “Holly”
And folks think about Christmas jolly…
Singing DECK THE HALLS
While a snow drift calls,
In a Christmas culturally “poly”.
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She wanted to go away,
Then decided to stay…
Our Holly found
Without her around,
A lot of folks felt dismay!
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Her writing’s a treasure trove
Fashioned in creative love…
Greeting each guest
She does the best,
And really has nothing to prove!
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Last of all–to put up with me–
Requires to the Nth degree…
Kindness unbounded
From a guy who’s hounded
His share toward insanity!
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Love her romancing her–no–
But I love the rest of her so…
If I was available
She’d be assailable,
Why a guy hasn’t–I don’t know.
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I fervently wish she can–
If she wants–to find a good man…
Whatever she needs
With my Father I plead,
That she may not leave us again.
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Some day, of course, many will,
When blogging won’t pay bills…
Or another medium
Makes better comedians,
Then will our blog go still.
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–Jonathan Caswell
NOTE: ILLUSTRATIONS are from Holly’s blog, House of Heart.
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The blogging beauty !
HIGHER SPEED RAIL
(To tune of “THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS”)
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Been working on the N scale
Whenever I’ve found time,
Rebuilding older trackage
So electrics will work fine…
Putting in curved turnouts
Simulating former speed,
My truncated mainline
Once hosted iron steeds!
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The story goes that this was once
A high-speed mainline,
Alas, this part of the railroad is
In serious decline…
A few banked curves remain to
Remind us what once was,
The rest of the roadbed
Like that economy, went bust.
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But renewing hope is out there
My imaginary line,
Hosts a tourist train
Which looks like it does fine…
A collection of Rail Diesel Cars–
Steam engines have a few–
An array of passenger train cars,
Restoration still to do!
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When rebuilding’s finished
(It’s going to run this time),
They’ll have a ceremony
So get yourself in line…
Cooking for a grand shindig
The restaurants in town,
Will serve the finest dishes
With MOXIE passed around!
They’ll serve their finest cuisine
So chug that MOXIE down!!!!
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–Jonathan Caswell
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ADMITTING MY SIN
(As part of the problem)
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Tool of the devil may be,
But much of the evil’s from me…
Promises broken
E’en by a token,
From motives done selfishly.
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Got back on Ebay
And spent in other ways…
Bank’s in a hole–
Sin takes a toll–
Leaving him in a haze.
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With God’s help worked through
And out of his boiling hot stew…
Enough to see
Eternity
Depends on sin confessed, too!
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–Jonathan Caswell
PAIN-STABBED PIGGIES
Up at this hour to foil
Pain with aromatic oil…
In between piggies
Sharp ones and biggies,
Throbbing but not from toil.
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Putting it on in the dark,
I feel it drip down to park…
On the other leg,
I sure would beg
It to stay where put, though in the dark.
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As pain slowly fades away
Took insulin early today…
At four AM
I’ll say an amen
If this pain goes away!
–Jonathan Caswell
THE ANTI-VIRUS DRAG
It’s enough to make one gag,
The anti-virus drag…
forced to reply
On a remote-control guy,
To service while taking the swag.
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I’m wishing there were someone nearer,
Whose English speaking clearer…
I’ll take what I get
If they’ll vet
And fix my computer steerer!
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 