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...

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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...

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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...

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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!




~...

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STILL LIFE

Life – a gathering of things
Life – with warmth of movement
            consciousness of...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Can I keep him, please, dear mother?
     I found him down the road.
I've been to all the neighbors,
   ...

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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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As I saw your
caged
soul rioting for my
attention, I knew
you to be my 
perfect
victim and started
envisioning how to
ravage
your beauty so it could 
ensnare
and impersonate my
lifetime wishes

Fearlessly...

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