The Trains

The excitement is unbearable
Getting on the train
that will be your home
for 3 whole days
will protect you as you comb
and wind yourselves through
Deserts, over raging rivers where
“Salties” live and would love to give
chase if you fell in there

To sit and watch a continent
slip by before our eyes
we receive its motivation
and creations the surprise
we always can refer back to
the Specimen trees we saw
to the mountains
all those colours
of the sun sets we adore

The different greens
all natural,
were impossible to see
the lilacs and rich dark red
and we saw them so
clearly
We slept when darkness fell of course
as the train continued on
To pastures new, more sights to view
As some ghost towns had gone

Man’s great ingenuity
provides us with a way
a lengthy locomotive
that rides the rails all day
cutting across great forests
and fields of sugar cane
cabbage palms that wave their arms
and the tree less limestone plain

So many wholesome vistas
are there before our eyes
In a continent as big as Australia
its size
served up to the traveller
from the comfort of their seat
its a truly wondrous experience
that you’ll find hard to beat

No matter what your age is
the child comes to the fore
It wants to run around the carriage
and look out, of the door
It wants to see the wild life
It wants to very much
AUS RAIL provides the back drop
So let’s all stay in touch

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.
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