Leaf or Lumber
Are you green for entertainment?
or are you showing how there's hope?
As long as your bright green glow is showing
Then you bet
You are green for health
not wealth where it doesn't matter
besides
Your work is in your appearance
not in your effort
But is that all you want to show who you were in this life
without a little bit of work
It would seem pointless
That was all it really came down to looks
and not the work you put into your life towards what goal
Leaning on yourself may not be the best strategy
but hey
Life is not always green too; sometimes its work.
makes saddle poems
a timber lumber person
as bad charge comments
we would encumber
what was excessive lumber
made me feel number
Lumber Jack likes his pancakes with kernels of sweet Iowa corn
Freshly picked out of his Great Grandma Nora’s garden
She spoils him by warming up his maple syrup and melting his butter.
He is a forty-six-year-old great grandson who lives at home
With his mother’s grandmother,
a kind hearted woman whom he carries from room to room
because at ninety-six her legs stopped working.
She does for him, and he does for her.
It is the best relationship he has ever had.
Mighty proud was I
with me lumber in one hand
my brick me carried in the other
I placed the brick in the barn yard
tall side for gained height
balanced the lumber board on top
I am silent and of Scottish temperament
You see folks
my feathered pet cock
was cock a doodle do-ing all day long
yapping and yelling
ranting and raving
the other farm animals had all had enough
action demanded
I place the ol koileach
at the end of one side of the board
all while smiling at the brainless duine beag
immediately I jumped on the other end
sending that whiny ol cock mid air
into the sea
he drowned
Ah what a wonderful day ladies
I shall meander onwards
among the heather and moor
my brick magically transformed
to fine woody scotch
oh what tales I shall tell
if tomorrow ever comes
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