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"timber" poems
dust cloud heavy in an apricot sky cottonwood mucker under ambrose pale whippet and shepherd mill at the earth patch yellow birch hangs over red bench park combine shavings in crack rust brown scissors chips fall at the back stop whiskey jack looters sing patented chords siblings (and 2 wheel enthusiasts!) give thanks joyous retrievers master the criss cross bare maples stand at settlers way barred owl and blue jay whistle in the fore-wind ghosts and goblins pull on the seeds wind gusts belt over the west gulch a blood rush churns in the chilling fall morn hallowed grounds still at the midday quiet reflections of the afghan and hound jumpers unite at the oxbow route runners bend (on a sultry foray!) meadows exposed in the framework ball parks empty with pennants past barrel dirt favors the brew house crimson and copper find bracken ridge gate harvest hands savor the honey and hops blankets of color for a winter's hatch brush fire kept under steady peruse bark bites fly and embers glow pine cones drop from the timber tops 3 wick candles grace the dinner place shiver and ****** at the piper's call cob web dew on the shadowy gates a chilled mist mellows the season's return ~ poets and artists and dreamers awake
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Oct 9, 2017
Oct 9, 2017 at 11:55 PM UTC
river of golden dreams
A tree falls in the forest, and it doesn't make a sound. A man yells in the forest, and local wild life forms a mob. A man falls in the forest, and he doesn't make a sound. A tree yells in the forest, and we all run like hell.
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May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 at 3:41 PM UTC
Falling Timber
I saw the old man circling the tree trunk Weather beaten skin, bent gnarled hands and piercing blue eyes He seemed to study every knot and crack in that ancient timber Then without a word turned and picked up hammer and chisel The wood chips then began to fly and like confetti on the ground lie soon in heaps some ankle high Occasionally he would stand back and look but never once a rest he took Mallet strokes both hard and soft some from under some aloft fell there with unerring skill always busy never still Long into the night he worked now by the light of an oil lamp and so the tree stump 'neath his hand then became a work of art At long last he stood and turned to me and said three words " that'll do lad" I approached to see just what he'd done and there I saw the perfect rose every petal and leaf in place the slender stems in the breeze did sway With no plan or picture he had made the start And created the perfect work of art. So what is creativity? Well that's your next challenge. No love poems because they've been done a million times. This time something unique
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Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 12:56 PM UTC
Creativity
You are a leader ship how I know this? cause I'm a leader ship too I can see the sinuous fibre of your very being take a look I bet you can see it too we are borne of the earth and the stars borne in the wind there are four cardinal directions, N E S W, do not forget about the intermediary be an intermediary ~ who wants to be a cardinal? we need our leader ships following their own true north 2D - 3D -- 4D --- 5D ---------------------------- > following the wormholes ... the aether following certain signs and symbols trust in divine feminine ... .. . .. ... masculine divine in trust trust in masculine divine ... .. . .. ... divine feminine in trust " 'It's all this!' He wrapped his finger in his fist; the car hugged the line straight and true." ~ Kerouac Ship builders choose their timber mindfully Be mindful with your archetypes, Noah!
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 3:20 AM UTC
Leader ship
#(a travelogue) He stared down through the unbroken silence lapping the shoreline Water skippers dart around the rocks and windfall driftwood settled juxtaposed in cattail reeds and emerging broadleaf sprouts A petrified heartwood timber lie fallow waiting bare barked, hushed like a pining lover’s      timeworn love seat,      rubbed smooth as      the crystalline waters      of  half-moon lake Lingering for a while  ―   like a hidden stalker, a perched wildcat waiting for the full moon’s   swooning spell to saturate the thickening dusk quietude;      arousing the urgent      call of the wild — exhaled from the held breath of the wilderness nocturne     on half-moon lake The stillness was scattered with the soft downy hairs of the sleeping cattails,  and the newly shed catkins a spring gust bestrewed from a tall resin birch tree nigh the Sitka willows      He  sat  quietly ...      time out of mind ― tossing his eyes up into the sky; taking the time to read the stars ― catching  them  each  again as they fell into his gentle hands, to show him who he was Seeing their sparkly tracers   trail-out above the cattails,      from a distance they resembled falling stars unable to perceive their own renaissance ― plashing lightly upon the still-water      on half-moon lake A lone shadow glides stealthily near mid-tarn,.. swimming   enchantingly with the grace      of a blackswan Appearing to glance shoreward at the glowing low stars rise and fall, as his eyes twinkled skyward over      the moonlit lagoon ― heavenward of its moonlit ballet; the lone sleek dark shadow      slipping through      a faint circular ripple stirring the smooth as glass waters ―   disappearing like a fleeting moment      waning deep aneath      a subtle silent wake. When all the clear lines blurred, he knew it had been so long ...      but hearken ! … an interceding      long drawn out wail        echoed  a feral ache      across the stillness,      breaking the silence ― as the shadow reappeared;      his tears surrendered to the undulating call of the wild; he felt the spirit of the sole Loon,      as black and white      as the moonlit night, stir deeply in his wanting heart ―      lay bare the silence in lengthy yodeled psalms to the god of the moon Diving down deep yet again, keeping the light he’d been given, vanishing into the lifespring sanctuary of half-moon lake harlon rivers ... May 2018 travelogue: 4 of some more
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 2:36 PM UTC
On half-moon lake ☽
#(a travelogue) He stared down through the unbroken silence lapping the shoreline Water skippers dart around the rocks and windfall driftwood settled juxtaposed in cattail reeds and emerging broadleaf sprouts A petrified heartwood timber lie fallow waiting bare barked, hushed like a pining lover’s      timeworn love seat,      rubbed smooth as      the crystalline waters      of  half-moon lake Lingering for a while  ―   like a hidden stalker, a perched wildcat waiting for the full moon’s   swooning spell to saturate the thickening dusk quietude;      arousing the urgent      call of the wild — exhaled from the held breath of the wilderness nocturne     on half-moon lake The stillness was scattered with the soft downy hairs of the sleeping cattails,  and the newly shed catkins a spring gust bestrewed from a tall resin birch tree nigh the Sitka willows      He  sat  quietly ...      time out of mind ― tossing his eyes up into the sky; taking the time to read the stars ― catching  them  each  again as they fell into his gentle hands, to show him who he was Seeing their sparkly tracers   trail-out above the cattails,      from a distance they resembled falling stars unable to perceive their own renaissance ― plashing lightly upon the still-water      on half-moon lake A lone shadow glides stealthily near mid-tarn,.. swimming   enchantingly with the grace      of a blackswan Appearing to glance shoreward at the glowing low stars rise and fall, as his eyes twinkled skyward over      the moonlit lagoon ― heavenward of its moonlit ballet; the lone sleek dark shadow      slipping through      a faint circular ripple stirring the smooth as glass waters ―   disappearing like a fleeting moment      waning deep aneath      a subtle silent wake. When all the clear lines blurred, he knew it had been so long ...      but hearken ! … an interceding      long drawn out wail        echoed  a feral ache      across the stillness,      breaking the silence ― as the shadow reappeared;      his tears surrendered to the undulating call of the wild; he felt the spirit of the sole Loon,      as black and white      as the moonlit night, stir deeply in his wanting heart ―      lay bare the silence in lengthy yodeled psalms to the god of the moon Diving down deep yet again, keeping the light he’d been given, vanishing into the lifespring sanctuary of half-moon lake harlon rivers ... May 2018 travelogue: 4 of some more
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Surveying northern autumn afternoon Pitcherelli, ex-marine, body-builder, Lussier, long-haired father of three dark-skinned children and myself, sharp-edged loner, ex-lover of a fair share of       women are belly-laughing in the dying sun. Clouds. The crew, in timber. Laughing over recent visits to marvelous cities where we could not keep ourselves from touching the terminal buds of numerous exotic trees and attracting ridicule of stylish girls and tame boyfriends. Pitcherelli before the Albany bus station shaking hands with a red pine planted thirty years ago. Lussier, one hand in a child's hand and the other feeling scabrous bark of urban woody plants. Myself among partially shaved heads and leathery aromatic       jackets getting close to the hairy bud of an unidentified poplar or       sycamore. People laughed, but we laughed best back on our mountain under the blackening weather.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 12:53 PM UTC
Dendrology
he is not quiet inside, or beside himself in awe. he's just been a middle-ground or a stopping point on my way out of my mind. but he keeps appearing while i'm steering down searing black-heart tar at a speed too fast. and yet he remains an ember only ever having grown into wet timber - a spark, but no hint of a flame. and maybe he does smell just like smoke- but it's still not the same as you. and that's why i just miss you instead of letting him call me "honey".
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM UTC
he is not
but have you noticed, have you noticed how  all mental health problems stem form a seemingly aether virus that attacks the pronoun category; i mean with proper justifiable schizoids you will not hear of the nouns being ransacked for an equation that equates itself to misnomers; it's all categorised negation of ease within the framework of pronouns. it's strange that philosophers stress the pronouns so much these days and those countless prior, but why do mental health diseases attack the pronouns and not the nouns? they attack the verbs thoroughly, but prior to the verbs exposing an illness the pronouns are attacked, so that many considering the singularity of expressing thought are ill because of being forced into a plural expression of thought: "voices." i find it hard to understand, but it's the reality, the aether virus attacks the pronoun on the backdrop of a king's casual expression / use of pronouns, when a king casually says of himself as omni or multi with one and we respectively; so why are pronouns so weak and nouns so strong that a tree cannot be a misnomer attaché of timber and rock not a pillar, or mountain as the verb: mountaineering? the pronoun category is weak from day one, because it suggests photographic duck animation on the lip pursed into a quack quack, but if we constructed thought without knowledge prior, eating the fruit of knowledge rather than the fruit of thought, using the starting point of the genesis metaphor, it's sometimes a no brainer to have weak thinking and strength in knowing, for if there was strength in thinking and weakness in knowing, i'd be the one chiseling these words in the ice age on a cavern wall. so, given, that diseases such as the famed premature dementia attack the pronouns but not the nouns the schizoid one will convene life with: pizza is pizza and sunshine ray down the drain clock the millionth dead parting of grasshoppers in decimals - while man unto man lusts one man's parting in decimals, but should dire said, part man with integers, and insects with decimals! but still, in the terminology of a cartesian understanding of illness, in that segregational aspect of things "sorted," why are mental illnesses tattooed in a weak pronoun usage compared to a strength in other grammatical categories? why are not mental illnesses ******* the life out of the nouns? the nouns are intact, the pronouns attacked, and the verbs chess piece the pawn from the casually speaking clown king into a beast imprisoned, for while the pronouns are attacked and the nouns left intact, the attack on pronouns expresses itself fully in verbs of the never existent tact: with such magic as to claim knock knock on plank is the same as knock knock on veneer.
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 7:58 PM UTC
plank v. veneer via grasshoppers
but have you noticed, have you noticed how  all mental health problems stem form a seemingly aether virus that attacks the pronoun category; i mean with proper justifiable schizoids you will not hear of the nouns being ransacked for an equation that equates itself to misnomers; it's all categorised negation of ease within the framework of pronouns. it's strange that philosophers stress the pronouns so much these days and those countless prior, but why do mental health diseases attack the pronouns and not the nouns? they attack the verbs thoroughly, but prior to the verbs exposing an illness the pronouns are attacked, so that many considering the singularity of expressing thought are ill because of being forced into a plural expression of thought: "voices." i find it hard to understand, but it's the reality, the aether virus attacks the pronoun on the backdrop of a king's casual expression / use of pronouns, when a king casually says of himself as omni or multi with one and we respectively; so why are pronouns so weak and nouns so strong that a tree cannot be a misnomer attaché of timber and rock not a pillar, or mountain as the verb: mountaineering? the pronoun category is weak from day one, because it suggests photographic duck animation on the lip pursed into a quack quack, but if we constructed thought without knowledge prior, eating the fruit of knowledge rather than the fruit of thought, using the starting point of the genesis metaphor, it's sometimes a no brainer to have weak thinking and strength in knowing, for if there was strength in thinking and weakness in knowing, i'd be the one chiseling these words in the ice age on a cavern wall. so, given, that diseases such as the famed premature dementia attack the pronouns but not the nouns the schizoid one will convene life with: pizza is pizza and sunshine ray down the drain clock the millionth dead parting of grasshoppers in decimals - while man unto man lusts one man's parting in decimals, but should dire said, part man with integers, and insects with decimals! but still, in the terminology of a cartesian understanding of illness, in that segregational aspect of things "sorted," why are mental illnesses tattooed in a weak pronoun usage compared to a strength in other grammatical categories? why are not mental illnesses ******* the life out of the nouns? the nouns are intact, the pronouns attacked, and the verbs chess piece the pawn from the casually speaking clown king into a beast imprisoned, for while the pronouns are attacked and the nouns left intact, the attack on pronouns expresses itself fully in verbs of the never existent tact: with such magic as to claim knock knock on plank is the same as knock knock on veneer.
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I am in levels. Past levels. This deep, intrinsic wonderful lost, the lawlessness of its fascinating expenditure of excite. Pushing through the wild and feral snow-dusted plains and timber ridges. Like red-spotted dots breathing through the cylinders called the spine. This descends into a narrow channel of scantly clad greenish scenery in a time-soaked visionary wilderness of snow, Our crab legs dancing down wiry purple highways, our heads could not even look backwards if we had wanted. Furious, love-latitudes, stalking breaths thwacking fork-ended tongues into a pinkish knot buried into the first layer of organic membrane on this railway of miniature canals, showing. And their pride snuck into the elbows, shooting down each vertebrae as it stepped with great precision every ledge that the currency emphasized. The raw accumulation of stolen heart-beats rattling between the interstices of new fuel careering these red engines. Crashing with exquisite pleasure into one another.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 4:41 AM UTC
I am in levels. Past levels. this deep intrinsic wonderful lost, the lawlessness of its fascinating expenditure of excite.
Sitting by this creek It’s 10 p.m. on a Wednesday School night Our 6-pack of Bud Lit being twisted within the twigs dying grass rustled beneath the feet of us Two young eager friends This is what we do with our memories Take photos from mind drips Paint it on paper Made from the years “Good Times” carved in my walls Our walls Now this ain’t some, “I’m gonna miss you so much!” “Please call when you can!”, ******** Man you’ll be in my head In my dreams We’ll go outside Pick up my old ball glove Dust off the smoke Although I was never that good Man this is what we did Childhood friends Roommates in college You’ll be my neighbor when I’m 45 And my roommate again at Timber Ridge Retirement Home I’m looking forward to Harassing the nurses with you You’re my friend dude I do have lots of friends But you’re only one I ask advice from I swear if I ever murdered someone I’d ask you to help me hide the body Now let’s enjoy this Count stars like high school gossip There’s only one thing left to do “Let’s destroy this beer”
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Dec 28, 2010
Dec 28, 2010 at 1:27 AM UTC
Bromance
stitched Teal fabric snugly hugs the hills and valleys of fat and muscle encasing the frail ivory timber within
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Feb 3, 2010
Feb 3, 2010 at 1:21 AM UTC
Socks
So it came to pass at last and sad to know a Timber has fallen It stood in strength tall and strong for over seven decades Resplendently toned it spread an uncompromising foliage Masterly in domain magical in reach attaining untold grades Humble in origins yet grew with endeavour and knowledge Distinguishably it cut sway in tundra and in lush green glades Son of sons of the Land held roots countenancing no crawling It reached for the stars and danced reasons with every shades Ran with the sun and sat with owls and vipers for tutelage Sweeping the very highs and the lows in communal trades In the jungle of sharks and vipers it be known who's in Charge A Timber has fallen while the rains falls and blue clouds fades There's now a mighty hole in the earth and rivers are swollen Leaves scatter and branches beckon hundreds of onward bridges Leaving best Princess, flowers and saplings for love and largesse A notable trunk laid supine free to roam without worldly cages Odes will enter dancing in guises and tears flow without finesse A Timber has fallen and dirges will ring out for a man of all ages Yemessia bows and says Adieu My Senior, we will meet again..... [email protected].
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 10:29 PM UTC
A Timber Has Fallen
Now, I'm here to tell a story Bout some lessons learned shawty I got me a tough crew, know what um sayin We played da diss game, slaydum Not one a da crew, brought da game shame First, I dubbed myself Kang I'm good, true! But didn't mean a thang Then coughed ma gural Sumpim She got da club thumpin Put her own style in da game, bra We still thuggin? Na! She first coughed a little gural princess Kicked in the castle, copped the Queen's dress Took the crown, made her own success Her rhymes get the heart pumpim Much respect to me gural Somthin Next, little siss picked up the mike Jumped on the tandem, started peddlin the bike Shawty's rhymes hit dem in da face She rhymed like a **** dresses in satin an lace Mad props out  to my siss, Madison grace I was alone,  like a stand  a timber **** Forest on fire with Diein Ember Laid down rhymes so tight He'd have my back in any fight I gotta thank ma boyyy Gangstan whichu was a flippin joy Otta nowhere swaggs a tru Gansta chick Bustin rhymes en droppin dimes like she was Slick Rick Wedyan be da real trick! Thanks gural slick Finally, swooped the dark Raven Rollin on 22's gatz a blazzin Loyall to da shawtys Flyin like a bomber on sorties Droppin posers to der knees Makin succaass  beg, brotha please To all ya all I got ta tell ya Would I do it again, hell ya Um movin on to a new gig Pull off my crown, plop on a wig To ya readers out dare got some advice Giv it a spit, it's Gangsta's Paradise!!!
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Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 10:44 PM UTC
Gangsta Poet III Thank You
*I stopped by for a cigarette and to hear a story He always told the tale of one eyed molly She lost her eye In a fight with a dog The moral of the story was Never trust something Just because it may look harmless, Even act harmless But this day he told me another tale The one of old Lumberjack Dale* He was large like an ogre Chopped too many trees to know of Was stupid according to my uncle This gave me quite a chuckle He left off, on a normal morning Hiked up the mountain To where the clear dirt’s mourning Held his axe and began to swing The trees didn't have a prayer He thought he was king One fell down He yelled "TIMBER" Another smacked the ground He Yelled "TIMBER" Then another and Another Birds were scattering Squirrels were flying The sounds were of a madman grunting through fire "TIMBER" The fifth hit the ground The lumberjack ogre Had to sit down He swung one too many times, on this here day The mountain swung back with a black bear, ok? Protecting her cubs she wrestled the big man Teeth in his arm and his axe in his hand He squinted his eyes and flung the weapon Missing the giant bear standing about 6' 11" The mountain whispered to the lumberjack "Leave and never come back" He had ****** his pants and ran for the shack "TIMBER" The old black bear followed Protecting her land And the ones she adored
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 9:13 AM UTC
Lumberjack Dale
In the seventies we brought back silks and saris hot with colours that shocked the nights Punjabi embroidery on cheesecloth kaftans mirror glittered skirts that were spun with light Kashmiri shawls and Afghani dancing dresses arms full of bracelets silver and brass enameled and etched and singing with *** rings of Ivory, sapphire and jet necklaces of jade and threaded apple seeds rain forest timber bowls white marble boxes from Agra with precious inlay stones our little Taj Mahals we wandered the globe like a magical village of lovers and and came back with backpacks of dreaming and hope. © M.L.Emmett
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Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 at 11:43 AM UTC
Backpacks of Dreaming
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright! The bridal of the earth and sky— The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season’d timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
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Virtue
Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass’d o’er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg’d in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still enduring skies, While the low violet thrives at their root. But thou beneath the sad and heavy line Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark; Where not so much as dreams of light may shine, Nor any thought of greenness, leaf, or bark. And yet—as if some deep hate and dissent, Bred in thy growth betwixt high winds and thee, Were still alive—thou dost great storms resent Before they come, and know’st how near they be. Else all at rest thou liest, and the fierce breath Of tempests can no more disturb thy ease; But this thy strange resentment after death Means only those who broke—in life—thy peace.
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The Timber
timber habitats are vanishing, on the Earth's mass timber habitats are vanishing, on the Earth's mass bulldozers and axes, lethal their mix bulldozers and axes, lethal their mix on the Earth's mass, bulldozers and axes vanishing timber habitats, lethal their mix the number one priority, where is the preserving and conserving the number one priority, where is the preserving and conserving tree dwelling creatures, served eviction from their homes tree dwelling creatures, served eviction from their homes preserving and conserving, tree dwelling creatures homes from eviction, the number one priority tree felling goes on unabated, wooded residencies destroyed tree feeling goes on unabated, wooded residencies destroyed profits to be ever reaped, satiating the logger's greed profits to be ever reaped, satiating the logger's greed unabated the logger's tree felling goes on satiating greed destroyed, wooded residencies reaped wood residencies destroyed, on the Earth's mass served eviction from their homes, tree dwelling creatures timbered habitats are vanishing, the number one priority profits to be ever reaped ,bulldozers and axes lethal their mix tree felling goes on unabated, satiating the logger's greed where is the preserving and conserving?
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
Preserving and Conserving (Paradelle Poem)
I sat on one of the park's two swings With my left arm plastered; in a sling I pushed the ground with my feet as I gazed at the sky Through the air, wafted the delicious smell of fish fry 'twas the month of June and monsoon was upon us Children were frolicking in the mud, as they got off the school bus The sky was filled with clouds waiting to wash the earth clean Hanging in the sky as if by strings unseen A flock of birds flew down to peck on the scattered grain To not run towards them and watch them scatter, it took much refrain The lonesome dog seemed blissful, his stomach full for the day Barking like mad and running in circles, on his own tail did he wish to prey The trees swayed gently, their leaves still wet from the morning shower I wonder how they've managed to withstand time's fearsome power For millions of millenia, they've stayed rooted and spread their seed Only to be turned to timber by man's single deed I snap out of my thoughts as you place a gentle hand upon my shoulder In that moment, I forget that the gaze I reserved for you was meant to be colder You stand in front of me, frowning slightly and pleading with guilty eyes I stand up, smile and walk away. I've never been one for goodbyes.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 2:08 AM UTC
A Monsoon Tale
~ late winter’s dusting, on tarnished ores; a dreamer’s seeds, these rails once bore. rain-washed colors, on sun-warped steel; their conjured hopes, an age once real; oxidized by rust and time blackened timbers, no longer bind; what still remains are worn out ties, a distant memory, of centuries gone by, now mere after-sighs. structures standing, but just by chance... a gust may blow them down; these buildings where men’s dreams once danced, now a ghost, this town. though no soul is left inside, still a body here resides. so long ago her carried goods, these rails rode, to distant homes, built dreams of wood; like dandelion wishes, scattered... gone, tracks going nowhere, now a fading ode, just another dusty song. for advancing progress never fails to leave someone's dying dream behind. ~ *post script. Oregon’s hills and back country hide these relics of a time when a nation’s spirit was fed by the sounds of industry, steel and steam, the whir of saws, and men calling, “timber”... long before the age of wood and rail were left in a saw-dusty bin of history by the sweeping hand of time.  i could easily be persuaded that this change was for the best, yet this can't erase the longing sense, left beneath my breast... advances do not come without leaving something or someone behind.*
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Mar 12, 2017
Mar 12, 2017 at 4:11 PM UTC
ties
There's a boat, there's a boat in the middle of the road in a massive traffic jam rolling after some old van i can tell from the look that shes trying to float away that shes hungry for the seas that shes sniffing in the breeze and this boat, she could float but she leaked a little bit she was leaky full of holes full of smoke and alcohol she was white she was shiny with a crooked timber deck with a crows nest full of crows with six cannon lined in rows on the sea in a storm she keeps sailing on and on sometimes sunk beneath a splash drunken boat and acting rash
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 11:54 AM UTC
Boat
At twilight I walk down the path through the woods Carpeted in autumn's nocturnal harvest. The guiding porch light, Feebler than the fluttering fire flies, fades. Smell of fresh decay seduces my will. Desires that have forever resided in the unattainable future Now like long parted friends sit around with welcoming smiles. Curious to commingle with Contentment I feel the Autumn seep into the woods, And the woods into my heart. Never before,   A weary traveller lost upon The tortuous timber trail Felt more at peace. Wishing to curl up in the cold warmth of the golden fleece.   The woods will the wind to wrap him in wool of the willow and tuck him amongst the exposed roots. An unmarked clock ticks somewhere. Here the eternal present prevails, Concealed from the eye of the arrow , In the stretch of this malleable moment. I, in the knowledge that my estranged self Rests in me, am whole again. At twilight.
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Nov 6, 2015
Nov 6, 2015 at 5:59 AM UTC
Autumnal Twilight
That time of drought the embered air burned to the roots of timber and grass. The crackling lime-scrub would not bear and Mooni Creek was sand that year. The dingo's cry was strange to hear. I heard the dingoes cry in the scrub on the Thirty-mile Dry. I saw the wedgetail take his fill perching on the seething skull. I saw the eel wither where he curled in the last blood-drop of a spent world. I heard the bone whisper in the hide of the big red horse that lay where he died. Prop that horse up, make him stand, hoofs turned down in the bitter sand make him stand at the gate of the Thirty-mile Dry. Turn this way and you will die- and strange and loud was the dingoes' cry.
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Drought Year
(I Could Not Knot a Knot.) My tale is one of tortuous frustration, when two ropes caused me aggravation, and my every effort resulted in a situation that left me in a state of angry indignation! Oh, what a knotty problem I had got, when I found I could not knot a needed knot! Though needing help on how to knot a knot, no one I knew, knew how to knot my needed knot! I had two short ropes - which I’d a need to knot, and which I’d knot together with a special knot, but it never worked, for the knot did not knot, and my knot came undone! I felt such a clot! Firstly, I took the ropes, which I twisted tight together, but still the end result, was not right, for when I tugged, the knot, not only fell apart, but showed no sign of a knot! Making a fresh start, I took one rope, and placed it firmly under the other. This was so easy, I did wonder if my actions should have been reversed, for it too fell apart! Oh, how I cursed! Seems tying knots is not for faint hearts, for any knot, that’s not knotted, soon parts when it’s put to the test! That I’m not a knot expert, you can tell. Truly, my forte is not that of being very good at tying knots, for I do not understand what knots need, to keep them from falling apart! Tying a knot right, right from the start, is important, and that’s why my knot was not reliable, but why I did not understand. Yes, I’ve tied many knots. but they’re knots known as Granny Knots. Other knots are what folks call a Slip Knot. Then there’s the Turk’s Head - a special knot, as is the Cat’s Paw, Clove Hitch,and Bowline. Truth to tell, - none of these resembles mine! Then there’s a Timber Hitch, which is a knot that truly puzzles me, and not an easy knot to knot! There’s many other knots, that need the greatest skill, such as the Hangman’s Knot - a knot that’s made to **** Whilst the sheepshank? That’s a tricky one to see! So many knots, but they’re not knots for me. Methinks of all the knots, the one true knot for me, is the “Lover’s Knot”, which I have tied successfully! Rhymer. April 24th, 2018
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Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 4:41 PM UTC
A Knotty Problem!
(I Could Not Knot a Knot.) My tale is one of tortuous frustration, when two ropes caused me aggravation, and my every effort resulted in a situation that left me in a state of angry indignation! Oh, what a knotty problem I had got, when I found I could not knot a needed knot! Though needing help on how to knot a knot, no one I knew, knew how to knot my needed knot! I had two short ropes - which I’d a need to knot, and which I’d knot together with a special knot, but it never worked, for the knot did not knot, and my knot came undone! I felt such a clot! Firstly, I took the ropes, which I twisted tight together, but still the end result, was not right, for when I tugged, the knot, not only fell apart, but showed no sign of a knot! Making a fresh start, I took one rope, and placed it firmly under the other. This was so easy, I did wonder if my actions should have been reversed, for it too fell apart! Oh, how I cursed! Seems tying knots is not for faint hearts, for any knot, that’s not knotted, soon parts when it’s put to the test! That I’m not a knot expert, you can tell. Truly, my forte is not that of being very good at tying knots, for I do not understand what knots need, to keep them from falling apart! Tying a knot right, right from the start, is important, and that’s why my knot was not reliable, but why I did not understand. Yes, I’ve tied many knots. but they’re knots known as Granny Knots. Other knots are what folks call a Slip Knot. Then there’s the Turk’s Head - a special knot, as is the Cat’s Paw, Clove Hitch,and Bowline. Truth to tell, - none of these resembles mine! Then there’s a Timber Hitch, which is a knot that truly puzzles me, and not an easy knot to knot! There’s many other knots, that need the greatest skill, such as the Hangman’s Knot - a knot that’s made to **** Whilst the sheepshank? That’s a tricky one to see! So many knots, but they’re not knots for me. Methinks of all the knots, the one true knot for me, is the “Lover’s Knot”, which I have tied successfully! Rhymer. April 24th, 2018
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