On the train
On the train
We've been standing here
ten minutes ago.
Vietato attraversare i binari
Do not cross the railway lines
I read subtitles
back and forth,
while the melodious
background noise in soft music
like a punch
- in front of the Frecciarossa train
at a speed of 300 km/h
breaks out of brooding board reading.
We're finally off again.
They touch the back of my neck
the receding trees and houses.
Birds on the wires of the poles.
We are accelerating like the World
I'm heading south
others in the ravine of the plain
swallows the dust,
sometimes kick up one's heels
An angry hunger awakens,
the companion of wandering.
The sun is kinder there in the south,
- day after day in a frenzy,
I feel at ease among living, speaking people,
who never yawn, only talk
they live, they burn like church candles,
their smoke engulfs the blue sky,
they fade away like reality.
Susanna Peremartoni
Hungary/Budapest
About this poem
My poem is an experience of one of my travels, when I traveled from Vienna to Livorno. From 2009 to 2019, I traveled a lot by train from Austria to Italy, because my fiancé lived there. The mood of such a journey is the poem.
Written on October 25, 2022
Submitted by pnsusanna on October 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BXBXCXXXXAXD XXXX XEAXX XDEFXXCXF AX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 906 |
Words | 181 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12, 4, 5, 9, 2 |
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