Can You Tell A Story In…

It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is:

TRAIN

So can you tell a story in five words using the word TRAIN in it somewhere?

Your word last week was POETRY. Here are your POETIC stories:

Keith Channing:

Non-rhyming poetry is pretty prose.

Poetry needs metre and rhyme.

Ruth Scribbles:

I write short poetry verses.

Vague poetry is not enjoyable.

I don’t enjoy snobby poetry.

I prefer to write poetry.

I don’t enjoy reading poetry.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

Poetry can rhyme well sometime.

Sounds of poetry are interesting.

Words create poetic poetry poems.

The poetry of steam trains?

Wordsworth and Coleridge – romantic poetry?

One man’s poetry, another’s doggerel.

Kim Smith:

I took a poetry class.

I like poetry that rhymes.

Songs and poetry are similar.

Terveen Gill:

His debauchery crushed their poetry.

Trent’s World:

No poetry for me today.

I love poetry in action.

Mimi Horne:

Poetry is music to me.

Val Fish:

Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme…

Poetry; it’s all Greek to me…

Limericks; poetry at it’s lewdest?

Lance Greenfield:

Perfect poetry prefers perfect punctuation.

Free form poetry is creative fun.

Classically structured poetry requires discipline.

Lance dancing: poetry in motion!

My poetry is usually emotional.

Limericks make poetry such fun.

Boris said, “No office poetry!”

EDC Writing:

Poetry… rhythm of found souls.

Equinoxio21:

Five
Words
Is
Too
Much.

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44 responses to “Can You Tell A Story In…”

  1. Train your mind to control your emotions

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    1. Thanks, Sanjuna. Can you do it in five words?

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      1. Train mind to control emotions

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  2. Train hard to catch train
    Running for train is training
    Avoid stepping on bride’s train
    Inner strength is trained mind
    Never train guns on people.

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    1. You make it look so easy.

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      1. It’s all bravado, Esther.

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  3. Train the children with manners.
    Really, train them by example.
    And be sure training’s fun.
    I was a trainer once.
    Never punish while training them.

    So I decided to do an acrostic… Like Keith does.

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    1. Oh, wow! Well done.

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      1. ☺️ today is National limerick day… I wrote one – see blog

        https://nationaltoday.com/national-limerick-day/

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      2. I do love that one!

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      3. 🥰😌🥰

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  4. Never been far by train.
    Trains bring towns down sometimes.
    Travel by train offers opportunities.

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    1. Great answers! Thanks, Kim.

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  5. Trains are all tied up.

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    1. Very good, Annette.

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    2. Train tracks are tied up! (this is what I meant to say earlier)

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  6. Chatanooga choochoo, my favourite train.
    How to train your pony
    Train long and hard, athletes
    The train is running early!
    Train, plane, boat, travel methods…
    Astronomy – train your telescope there….

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    1. Fabulous first one!

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      1. We are singing that at choir practice xxx

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  7. He waited. The train didn’t.

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    1. That’s a great one!

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      1. Thank you, Esther. 🙂

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  8. Training to drive a train.
    Daddy hit by a train (Darn it, I wanted to do a quote from O Brother, Where Art Thou, but all of them have too many words!)

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    1. That’s a shame, but I like these two.

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    She caught train he missed.

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    1. I like that a lot. Thanks, Eric.

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        EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen

        You are welcome Esther

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  10. I hear the train a-coming
    Distant running down the line
    Whistling and humming, rhythmic drumming
    Keeping pace and keeping time
    I hear the strings a-strumming
    Hear the bell? It’s mine
    For me, the last homecoming
    Going down. I’m going fine.

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    1. I really enjoyed that. Thanks, Richmond.

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  11. My train of thought derailed.
    Stop the train! Missed stop!
    Can you train your brain?

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    1. I try and train my brain but it doesn’t work! 😆

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      1. Me too, Esther, Lol!!!/

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  12. Train noises, but no train.
    An hour late. Train horror!
    Train horror. The zombie express.
    Ghost train. The screaming starts.
    Train tracks. But no trains.

    Have a great weekend, Esther.

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    1. Thank you so much, Hugh. You too.

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    Squashed on train like sardines
    Passed out on packed train
    Railway children’s petticoats stop train

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    1. Ooh, that third one is so clever!

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        Thanks Esther, one of my all time favourite films.

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  14. Plane to Spain to train
    Training in Madrid was fun
    Blended training engages and excites
    Proper training relieves operational strains
    Steam trains revive childhood memories

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    1. Thank you so much for these. Very entertaining.

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