This Train . . .

By David C. Putnam

These poems go into everyday life problems and how some overcome and some who had enough remove themselves from society.

As you read through these poems, itll take you through lifes disturbances and the places that they exist. Some you can control, and some you cannot. You just have to wonder how we manage to reach our aspirations and dreams.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524582845

David C. Putnam

These poems go into everyday life problems and how some overcome and some which had enough and remove themselves from society. As you read through these poems, it’ll take you through life’s disturbances and the places that they exist. Some you can control and some you cannot. You just have to wonder, how we managed to reach are aspirations and dreams.

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THIS

TRAIN……

Poems by

David C. Putnam

Copyright © 2017 by David C. Putnam.

ISBN:                   Hardcover                        978-1-5245-8286-9

                             Softcover                          978-1-5245-8285-2

                             eBook                              978-1-5245-8284-5

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 02/09/2017

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Table of Contents

Gates of Delirium

Man in the Mirror

In a Moment’s Notice

An Odyssey of Spirit

A Door in the Floor

No Man’s Land

Life’s Movement

Sundown

Traveling with a Heart and Soul

Looking Through Any Window

A Mother’s Way

Land of Make Believe

Goodnight MR. Schultz

Blue Elephant

Tumbling Dice

Raining on the Scarecrow

A Ring Around the Moon

Between the Furrows

Walking Down the Highway

Then Play On

Fins

A Skeleton Promise

Lonely Days, Lonely Nights

Paper Moon

Ballad of the Angry Young Man

Son of a Tiller Man

One Night

Ten Thousand Roads

A Distant Warrior

Riding the Wind to Baghdad

Little Big Horn

Jerusalem’s Wall

A King’s Cross

Coal City

Ashe

Mind Games

Webster Law

Looks

White Doves

A Passageway

Two Hearts

A Song for You

Against the Wind

A Burning of the Heart

Walking After Midnight

Broken Pieces

A Gentleman & A Spider

Hear Me

Flaming a Star

Tin Pan

Butterflies Are Free

Blue Obsession

A Knock at Midnight

Sleeper of the Dawn

Cry Me A River

A Cry of Violence/Silent Night

Among the Towers

And the Lady Still Stands

Naked Eyes

Holy Mother

This Train

Dedicated to those who endure through everyday life’s problems and conquers.

Foreword

These poems go into everyday life problems and how some overcome and some which had