00:13: Train Ride Inspiration

Kenneth R. Jenkins 1961 (Augusta, GA)



The night train moves
Quickly in the night's air
And the noise from the train
Keeps a steady beat lugging home.
I gotten a buzz of inspiration
Sweet inspiration from other poets
And their words expressed
To make me write these lines even now.

Good vibrations
Not like the Beach Boys
But perhaps more lyrical
Like Langston, Nikki, and yes Butterfly as well.
Inspired in lyrical soundbites
Feeding my very soul deep inside.
Makes me wanna hollar
Shout it to the world
I gotten bitten by the Poetic Bug
An inspiration that's catchy
To make me write like this....

                                            July, 2004
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Submitted by Kenneth R. Jenkins on July 14, 2019

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 614
Words 101
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 11

Kenneth R. Jenkins

Freelance writer, poet, podcast host/producer, minister,devoted husband living in Savannah, GA. Author of three books of poetry. more…

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