Best Chisels Poems

a carpenter chisels creativity ~ his son saves souls

[First of May: Here in Malta, apart from celebrating Labour Day, 
we also celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker.] 

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As shifting shadows merge within the night,
darkness devours disheveled silhouettes.
And daylight disappears, fading from sight;
as a splendiferous sun slowly sets. 
 
Twilight's crimson-colored clouds coalesce;
tinting the skies a cotton candy pink.
And yet, darkness descends nevertheless,
tattooing treetops with ebony ink. 

Sequined stars sparkle in the midnight...

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I kneel to pray beneath an oak tree’s leaves,
where my journey began.
Broken limbs straggle over a patchy lawn,
a neglected place full of holes, 
shoveled from childhood memories.

I bow at the altar of the tall oak.
Days come and go, but yesterdays
are no longer my foundation. 
The...

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From dead sands
a step was birthed
of stone ...
a carved staircase
leading down ... and deep.
Shovels bit,
whisks brushed,
cartouches
led on ...
November
twenty-six,
nineteen-twenty-two,
chisels breached an entrance
and ...
The Boy King arose!




~ 10th Place ~  in the "Yalto Poems Only" Poetry Contest, Emile Pinet, Judge & Sponsor.

( A "Yalto" is a...

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STILL LIFE

Life – a gathering of things
Life – with warmth of movement
            consciousness of being
           sound      color  ...

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Draped over the land like a ghostly shroud,
a blanket of morning mist
morphs into rolling banks of fog;
soft as an eider-filled duvet.
Dawn rebukes Night's claim to darkened skies
and armed with chisels of light
sculpts ebony shadows
into shifting shapes,
sent scurrying into nooks and crevices.
Sleeping sounds slowly awaken;
giving voice...

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There is no escape from strange morning whims, 
when irritation causes numbness in my limbs.
Dawn has become an unwelcome nemesis, 
rage for sunrise an uncontrollable genesis,
disturbing the peace of my silent reverie, 
tormenting all that is felt as sensory. 

I despise the chirping of hungry...

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Spring, Summer, and Autumn are Her rival,
but they all pale to Winter's arrival.
She is less subtle than the other three,
so shelter's a matter of survival. 

Jack Frost is tethered to Her every whim
and She enjoys exclusive use of him.
She's fond of the art that He...

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Pleasure primes play
Rapture reaps rays


Etch each endear
Charm chisels cheer


Imp inks ideas
Odd opts obscure


Use unfurls urge
Soul sees swift surge


Mind moves motions
Oomph oils options


Move mindful match
Ends endow etch


Niche nurtures nice
Touch tickles twice


Sense sweet surprise
Prove primal prize


Offer one opt
True talent tops


Note neither nor
One on one oar


Troubles tell toils
Etch...

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Can I keep him, please, dear mother?
     I found him down the road.
I've been to all the neighbors,
     And this is what I'm told.
"That's not my dog there, Sonny."
     "Haven't seen him 'roud...

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Thunderous and loud,
the glacier chisels into
the cold, arctic sea!...

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The Heart of The Edifice   



In the midst of the forest
Of skeletal trees, green cedar, pine,
and brush is the thickest
Standing so tall and blissful
Enduring weathering and erosion that slowly chisels,
Earth's rock into ever evolving work of art
A rock structure that use to be...

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Mount Rushmore; Carved in Stone

From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in South Dakota;
Representing 150 years of history
(From birth of a nation
To entry into the 20th. century)
In carved images:
Of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt,...

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Are you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.

Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands and chisels, making shapes from out of stone.
From animals to flowers there is nothing he can't make
and will make a...

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Glacier! Icy, cold,
hard. Diamond-like, it chisels
the frosty landscape....

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