Long Woodcutter Poems

At the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...

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With feet rooted into the bones of the Earth,
the old man squatted on his heels and began his work.
He lifted his saw and placed it on top of a block of hardwood.
And then he began...

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Will I be a cleric or a pastor?
I 
I think of be a priest in Catholic Church,
All allies & helpers cry
Yes, my fiancée said I dared not,
 I awe her logic of rejects me to...

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Once upon a time in Baghdad
There lived two kids n their dad
The old man died
The sons sighed
They were Allibaba n cassim
They lived at a forests rim
Cassim married a rich girl
But aaladin a woodcutter married a...

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FRED

Fred the farmer he bought a new tractor
The milk maid he wanted to attract her
He said you wanna ride 
So she jumped in beside 
Said tis slow can't it go any faster .

SAUL

In ancient times...

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Here's the story of Hansel and Gretel
But, again, not like they said
Their's was way too humdrum
So, here's my version, instead

First, their father wasn't a woodcutter
He worked at the laundromat
He took quarters from the scrub boards
To...

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One fine late midnight coils back the whole universe 
And asks me in eager voice, what is the source of the race of man?
In sotto voice i whisper in his ears that it is God...

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The woodcutter and puppeteer
once lived 
in coexistence
although unknown
craft left hidden
strings quietly rewoven

In past life
the woodcutter 
was greedy
and when threatened
by possibility
cut the strings
holding together
glue and wax

The puppeteer planned
and they quarreled
until the woodcutter
lost their glue
and the strings
once...

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Cuckoos hushed, rambling vines and plight.
Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Choke of darkness, forcing midnight.
Wax and breadcrumbs children-ditched folks.

Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Hansel and Gretel, frightened, twitch
Wax and breadcrumbs. ...

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Do you believe in miracles?
Do you believe in love?
Do you believe in magic?
And angels up above 

Do you believe in happiness?
Or do you think its phrase 
Would you believe it has? 
Never come to me...

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Neglecting the sun-rays 
She comes here each day
Approaches to see the rabbit hole,
Ignoring the fear of animals
As her swain once committed her, 
He will come here to meet her again.

Flowers emaciated, Trees withered, 
Following the...

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ON MUSHROOM HILL (THE WOODCUTTER)

Everyone is so happy, up there on Mushroom Hill
A place of peace and tranquility, and full of cheer
The woodcutter goes about as mastering his skill
Building a summer house for all the...

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Jim was a lumberjack from Borehamwood
A chainsaw mishap took off his manhood
His Love life was a mess
He now suffers from stress
So he made himself one out of oak wood .

He went to bed one night...

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Mother nature’s trees shudder in the breeze,
Clothed in ashened sky,bearing angry eye.
The winds conversation with birds to flock,
Branches of two trees interlock.

Angry eye is sporting black,
The fight for supremacy notoriously back.

Rabbits and squirrels retreat with...

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I remember that place
in green pastures called home.
But where are you now
“Union Yard, Britton Holm”
Deep in reams of memories
indelible you lay,
reposed at the helm
of a life rushing by.

Guess i’ve played life’s
generation game,
yet somehow you appeared...

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Have leaves that remain still;
   Give shade to all, with good will;
Of ego, am free
   Am a silly old tree.

A vehicle comes near;
  His pall of smoke I do fear;...

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