Wednesday, May 2, 2018

barter trade train ride?

                                                                                                    Author GKarunakar
Image: The train ride of old (here)

barter trade train ride?
home grown produce for tickets?
village riders' fun

tossing and turning
in broad daylight while sitting
the train ride of old

now fast and smooth no
more open but in cool coach
and great sights flash past

Susan's at PU's Midweek Motif  -  barter/trade
MLMM's - heeding-haiku-with-chevrefeuille - railway-trip

10 comments:

  1. I think it would be fun to travel by train. Always wanted to take a train ride across Canada.

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  2. Is there actually a place to barter and ride? I'd give poetry ...
    but I siuppose with the new comfort, the barter is gone.

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  3. I think perhaps those days are gone, we are too greedy and selfish now. However how pleased the station and train staff would be to be able to feed their families from payment in kind if their wages were low.

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  4. Haven't been on a train for a few years Hank, brings back pleasant memories. Thanks.

    Yvonne.

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  5. Sure a slower approach, but plenty of sights to see.

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  6. Oh, if only train tickets came so cheap: just a basket of produce!

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  7. How times have changed. Speed. Vision and price.
    Nice haiku sequence Hank

    Much🌼love

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  8. Am thinking.....How would the world be today if we still followed the barter system for transacting? Lovely...

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  9. I would LOVE to travel by train. But these days, they have made it too expensive - then wonder why no one is riding!

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