Best Carpentry Poems

Carpentry
It’s the first nail 
That hurts,  the sharpness
That pierces right through the  framed  constructs
Of our wooden fears
 With
 unrelenting precision 
As if we could unhurry our blood or 
Hammer a dismantled dream 
Into a different shape  
 Unfurled  blueprints ...

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my heart is hard
but you find the soft spots
like a carpenter searching for studs.
now, drive the nail in...

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There was this smart ass way back in high school,          
sharp as a fiddle but so unpredictable;
he ran the school paper and worked as editor,     
you might say he’s intelligent and that’s...

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I’ve got a skill just come up and see
While I complete it so easily
Just watch my hands as they do their stuff
Your eyes won’t want to get enough

I can do it with my eyes shut tight
And you won’t beat me try as you might
To make...

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Jesus was a carpenter, 
he worked with saw and hammer. 
He pounded, banged, for 20 years, 
it was an awful clamor. 
Then he spent three years a'preachin', 
he never had a stammer.
At last they nailed him to a cross, 
nevermore to yammer....

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Built with the measurement of The Alive
For those once here but no longer thrive;
One J saw for a dog that didn’t ask for interment
And it was some lavish entertainment!

In the past, bamboos strung into a box
For some innocent guy or consummate fox!
A wiring round it...

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