Mr. Slotkin, can you accept that there now appears to be an Associate Laureate at the site.
Posted by HopefulRailUser (Member # 4513) on :
Marty, that was an excellent response.
Posted by Ira Slotkin (Member # 81) on :
The honor is mine: to have a rhyme Dedicated to me. Few are the times When a limerick, ode or even haiku has been dedicated to yours true. Would that the laureate seat we're sharing Was in a train, and we were faring Across the plains, o'er mountain tops making a myriad of station stops In dark of night or glistening day Dreaming as we're on our way.
The muse perhaps makes trips by rail And so I hope that Granny Hale's (um) Tail in rhyme or prose or twitter or post gives us what we love the most and that is (if only vicariously) a trip on a train for she and we that transpires quite fantastically and is re-called synaptically.
I just worked a 13 hour day, but coming home to find a poem dedicated to me certainly provides inspiration. Thanks Train Granny!!! By the way old girl - I am 62.
Ira
Posted by Train Granny (Member # 30118) on :
Ira, So glad to hear from you!! Your poetry is wonderful! It flows so smoothly and makes my little poem read like the work of an 8 year old!!... but, I certainly had fun writing it!! So... we are the same age. If you are working 13 hour days, however, you are NOT retired!! Where do you work?
Posted by Ira Slotkin (Member # 81) on :
I'm a Social Worker. I work with violent offenders. Retirement is a ways off as I have children 9 and 14, both adopted from Guatemala. 3 13s gives me flexible time on Monday and Friday Can't afford many train trips so I do them via this site.
Hope your travels are going well!!
Ira
Posted by Train Granny (Member # 30118) on :
Travels are going quite well, Ira. We are on the Adirondack just north of Albany and the scenery is about to get wonderful! You won't believe this, but my grandson who will be six in June was adopted from Guatemala. My daughter, who is single, adopted him as a baby. I spent about six weeks with her (and baby) in Antigua, then we brought him home at 9 months old.
We will have to talk off forum!
Posted by Railroad Bob (Member # 3508) on :
Ira-- well done iambic pentameter in your poem above. That is iambic p, correct? As in:
"the curfew tolls the knell of passing day"
Elegy in a Country Churchyard- Gray
Posted by Ira Slotkin (Member # 81) on :
Thanks Bob! I do take a bit of poetic license with the meter, but it is basically iambic pentameter. I have also ben known to strecth for a rhyme. But what's a foamer to do...
And yes Train Granny - lest we pull the forum further onto this siding, let's do email off list about Guatemala and adoption.
I think I have emailed more in ther last week than in the past year.
Ira Coming up on 275 after 12 years on the forum. Watch out notelvis.
iraslotkin@hotmail.com
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
From Crowne Plaza Atlanta Ravinia Dunwoody GA--
Well, Drs. Hale, I hope tghat you were able to change your seating from the Fireman to the Engineer side at ALB; Lake Champlain is beautiful.
I confess, I've never ridden The Adirondack, but have ridden both the D&H Laurentian and Montreal Limited.
Posted by Train Granny (Member # 30118) on :
In Montreal! Good trip today... long trip today! Beautiful and interesting. Will give more detail after I rest a while!
Posted by notelvis (Member # 3071) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ira Slotkin: Thanks Bob! I do take a bit of poetic license with the meter, but it is basically iambic pentameter. I have also ben known to strecth for a rhyme. But what's a foamer to do...
And yes Train Granny - lest we pull the forum further onto this siding, let's do email off list about Guatemala and adoption.
I think I have emailed more in ther last week than in the past year.
Ira Coming up on 275 after 12 years on the forum. Watch out notelvis.
iraslotkin@hotmail.com
Notice taken Ira!!!!!
Glad to hear you reached Montreal Marta. There is pleasure in accomplishing a trip as planned.