Best Cordwood Poems

The Ending at Wounded Knee

This is what happened:
Two worlds collided,
And the elder one died.

Pony soldiers and Indian police,
Triggerhappy and jumping at shadows,
Killed Sitting Bull at...

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All hail to thee love, your swave "eh" intrigues me.
Your embattlements stack like wet cordwood
upon the pile of used newspapers in my outhouse,
making the use...

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Bleak
Gray day,
Biting breeze
Offers portent
And tumbles autumn’s harvest of sere leaves
To winter’s foreboding, icebound doorstep:
Stacked, stands cordwood,
Shovels wait,
First snow
Looms....

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The creek is running swollen from the snowmelt.  
The nights are getting shorter day by day.
The crocus pose like dancers in recital; 
A portrait...

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Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

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Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

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The Director 

By Sy Roth 

 

The directors--  

For want of a nail 

They were not wanting 

 

So many nails,  

A cache...

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There is a crooked man 
Who has a crooked mind
Which renders his decisions
Malignant and maligned:

The Paris Peace Accord
The Pandemic Office crowd
Both among the things
This man...

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Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

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Cocuswood, the perfection and beauty
made perfect sound a pitch
deemed as bass
a tone
with depths and richness
cocuswood
the studio with the barned afea
cordwood walls
five cords of cedar
cemented into
a...

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Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

Read more of this work...

Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

Read more of this work...

Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

Read more of this work...

Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

Read more of this work...

Even the invitation
Is worth more than
Gold.....

                The Bainez National Open...

Read more of this work...