This NEW HAVEN RS-3
Is weathered beautifully…
Oil and smoke
It’s colors evoke,
The fact that it’s real you can see!
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Weathering of a model
To look like much time on its throttle…
Takes stain and dusting
And tradition-busting,
To produce seepage mottled!
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Don’t if I can in N scale,
The worst I can do is fail…
Will give it a try
And magnify,
A hard-working loco on rails!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Ran into a tiny snag,
Or a way out of a paper bag…
Double track or twice -around
Both plans sound,
On either I could brag.
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The old two by four feet pike,
Had a twice around I liked…
An oval outside
For long cars to ride,
As a display, it was nice.
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Essentially not micros,
Normal radius grows…
Longer train cars
Don’t overhang as far,
More space makes sense, I suppose!
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But a “pizza” is a display round-and-round,
Small trains in circles are bound…
Simple-to-complex
One way to relax,
I hope I can “nail one down”!
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–Jonathan Caswell
On December nineteenth,
Invaders showed up with teeth…
P&W’s paint
Will soon grow faint,
Till orange and black is complete!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Photo taken December 19, 2016, by Richard Deuso…posted on the NERAIL photo page.
If I were a painter renowned
I’d follow you all over town…
Sketching your lines
Offering times
When you and I should sit down.
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I’d offer a generous contract,
Half of the proceeds get back…
I may sound flighty
But you are Aphrodite,
Please answer in the positive track!
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I’d paint you all sorts of ways,
Critics will sing your praise…
If only allow
A portrait now,
But I’d paint you the rest of my days!
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–Jonathan Caswell
NEW BIRCH BEGINNINGS
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Only God can make a tree,
Been years since painting one for me…
A cancellation
Brought participation,
A class for the elderly!
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My worry was shaking hands,
Picture painting has certain demands…
Lucky for me
A birch tree,
And its wiggly trunk still stands!
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The instructor put a cardinal in mine,
On a snow-cover branch so fine…
And “fly specks” too
Of snow that flew,
We pictured it at wintertime.
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–Jonathan Caswell
PAINTING PARTY!
(Tune of THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS)
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Residents have a painting party
Half-an-hour from right now,
The room is sheathed in plastic–
Will the painters take a bow…
Copying one picture
In acrykic color paint,
Billed as fun for everyone
But Rembrandt it ain’t.
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We are grasteful to the folks that
Brought this lady in,
At the risk of leaving carpet stains
Fun causes quite a din…
As for the Poet
His hands often shake,
It’s been a while since he’s tried
A straight line to make!
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Like Joni Erickson-Tada,
I could paint with my teeth,
Don’t like the taste of brushes
But my choke reflex is brief…
I think I’ll stay with painting words
On the screens of reader’s minds,
And if I make a typo
I’ll catch it …in time!
And if I make a few typos…
I’ll catch them…in time!
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–Jonathan Caswell
