The Fantastic Freight Train of Friendship and Other Such COnnections

By Veronica Bergschneider

, The Fantastic Freight Train of Friendship and Other Such Connections, represents 10 years of friendship in the making.  I use many styles and meters of poetry informed with rhythm gained from a lifelong love of world music to describe the many emotions found in such a long friendship.  The title of the manuscript is derived from a mutual interest my best friend and I share in trains and the imagery with which I started the project. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Parlez Poetics
• Release date: Feb 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386410416

Veronica Bergschneider

As a musician first, Veronica Bergschneider finds herself fascinated with rhythm and rhyme in poetry. She naturally falls into rhyme while writing on a wide variety of subjects. Veronica began the adventure of words at the age of 15, and can't shake it to this day. She lives in Hagerstown, Maryland with her husband, Mike and our daughters.

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Dedications

This book is dedicated to

The closest people whom

The Good Lord has given to me -

First, the one who became not only friend, but family:

Mike, my husband,

A truly open-minded man

To whom I always return when he

Allows me to learn by setting me free.

Secondly, to our daughter, Anna, who

With God's help, led me to

A wonderful friend outside the family,

My best and truest friend, Danny,

The one who has taught me the meaning of

True friendship and platonic love

That brings to my soul a healing balm

And into my life a sense of healing calm -

Thank you all - I couldn't have done this without you!

Questions

Why should others care if we are

In a friendship that's come this far?

Who says it needs to be

Left up to anybody

Else to come along and say

There's no possible way

That you and I could

Ever be anywhere near good

Enough for each other to spend

So much time becoming friends?

How can anyone even try

Or want to deny

Another's company before having been

Able to make a friend?

Where do people find

Such a state of mind

As to say because someone is different

A friendship cannot be meant

Between those who see the gold

In each other's soul?

Oh, when will every

One on earth finally

Learn to accept one another

Making friends with each sister and brother

So that all may truly

Live in peace and harmony?

Accept or Deny

Accept my friends or deny me

For my friends are my true family

Not telling me what to do

But cheering me when I am blue

A true friend has a heart of gold

And comforts me mind and soul

Sharing life in good times and bad

Until the day we all are glad.

My true friend does not accuse

Me of sins and give me the blues

But stands by my side

As I learn not to hide

How I have come to feel

Full of love so deep and real

That sometimes it still feels too good to be true

To have a friend as special as you

With whom I’ve developed that divine holy love

That allows us to transcend above

What sinful souls may think

As they farther from glory sink

While we continue to grow

And flourish in the happy glow

That only those who share it understand truly

Its depth and beauty

As through our actions we show

How others can find friendship’s glow

If only people learn to open their mind

Will they ever really find

The way to the glory of

Such a wonderful, friendly love.

Others' Jealousy

There's a distinct possibility

A spate of pure jealousy

Causes others to remain bound

To questions about