Get On The Train

Student Poetry and Reading Responses

Get On The Train

By Maureen Ucles

Come one!

Come all!

Join us

The few

The proud

Heart attack expressions
written on the canvas

Peeling through the onion
Layers upon layers
exposed

No tears allowed

maybe a few
maybe some
possibly none

On 

The Writing Train

It's leavin' the station

Rev up those pistons

Moving through your city
pueblo or town

Take a look

Stay for some time

See the sights

Cross the Nile

Into some thoughts

Left on some pulp

of an old, old, tree

Imprinted forever

on some pixels

Thoughts left unread

'til now
Enter in
Join the frey
Pull up a chair
Crack a smile
Stay for a minute or to
if you like
for long, long  while

Shout it from the roof tops

kids thinking

kids writing

kids reading

Havin' some fun!

Get on the train

Let your imagination

Go wild

Firm warning

tho'

Not for the faint of heart

but for those

who know

It's in the message

It's the meaning

Not perfect

Just words

Trying them out

Playing around

Moving

on a page

waiting to launch

into the unknown

Check it out!