Carvers Poems - Poems about Carvers

Names in a Sandstone Wall

...A declaration of love etches
itself deep into a bed of soft sandstone.
The kind that's hastily scratched on
with nothing more than a stone
found on the nearby ground.
The letters are shaky, impe...

All I Can Offer You

...A thousand fair suitors all stab at your heart, 
those poets of movement and jockeys of art. 
The high-volume vendors who hustle romance, 
splashing their canvas with color and dance. 

The blas...

The Book of Souls

...The nobility, the priesthood,
The common, the slaves
A life's journey fixed,
Elected for life or
Passed from father to son.

Omens, divinations,
Predictions, reading future
They were skilled ...

A Sitka Sunset

...A Sitka Sunset

Mute wind chimes on the Totem Trail
 Ring through purple mists in
Platinum testimony to evergreens adorned in dusk
And leftovers from raindrops splashing from totem beaks,
Cedar...

Carving a Mask Is a Task

...Why would one ask,
If the carving of a mask 
Is, indeed, a task 
When to simply this question ask 
Is itself a task?
Mask carvers in their job bask,
Their wine glasses beside a cask, 
Their Af...

All I Can Offer You

...A thousand fair suitors all stab at your heart, 
those poets of movement and jockeys of art. 
The high-volume vendors who hustle romance, 
splashing their canvas with color and dance. 

The blas...

Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand Up

...Would the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up!

Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
all the other ones (that follow below)...
them guys imposters I write – every ƒµ©**** one.

...

Woods Soul Released

...With chisels, carvers
Chip away bits and pieces
Sinewy fibre;
What emerges from the wood
Is the essence of its soul....

Dragons Make Great Heating Systems, Part 1

...If you have a dragon, a great furnace he makes.
belching his fire can heat your entire place.
But, there is one problem, non initially foreseen;
you see dragons, like people, have their own dreams...

Chop Shop

...CHOP SHOP

The Villages at Carver ate
Four tires and a steering wheel
Their hunger pangs would not abate
So they acquired plans to steal
 A screwdriver
And a wrench too
A steel ha...

Battle Axe and Her Republican Trumpeting Waze - Part 1

...Upon bitterly cold dawning hours of one January 2000 day
the Harns family desperately sought a place to live – “hay
there” Nelson Swartley (an independent realtor) 
politely responded bringing unw...

Two Jacks

...To make his jack-o-lantern,
My husband wields a knife
And carves a slightly scary face
To make it come to life.

It isn’t sketched or plotted;
Just some time is all he needs
And before he’s ev...

We Set To Save the Caves

...There was a time so carefree we were.
Time we had more than enough!
A blue sky meant a sunny day.
Our eyes with merry would dance 
Thinking of another day in a cave;
A fascinati...

Season Splice

...Skeletal garden stalks rattle, shivering,
long leaved arms rustle in the wind,
bony fingers snap in rhythm 
to October’s haunting song;
they gather as shadowy hillside wraiths,
spectral companio...

Spirits Freed

...The life in the wood will be revealed by the wood carver.
Chipped away with chisel and mallet; wood displays its secrets.
Wood carvers release the spirits trapped within the wood.

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