*tanka 9: Train Whistle Poem by Lillian Susan Thomas

*tanka 9: Train Whistle

Rating: 4.7


train whistle fading -
all I know of where it goes
in the cold night.
Meteor flaming, then gone -
all I know of where it falls

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kerry O'Connor 24 October 2009

Such an interesting linking of elements - the train become meteor in the night.

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Sonya Florentino 11 August 2009

i agree with Mark, this is so deep....for what is life but that train... for we never really know where we are going....

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Mark Nwagwu 07 August 2009

all I know of where it falls - in uncertainty certainty; in the unkowable the knowable. I like this notion of life as the known unknown; and you get my 10, with this first comment, Lilian. brief and deep

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