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Lumberjack Poems - Poems about Lumberjack


Modern Lumberjack Sonnet
Clad in Kevlar on some forest land leased, big saw in his hand, engine idling, gets put to the tree and shatters the peace, works it just right, and the tree is falling. Adjusts his visor, then lops off the limbs, the yarder comes down, cables cinch up tight, makes sure it is a good distance from him, then yanks the logs...

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Categories: lumberjack, appreciation, imagery, men, mountains,
Form: Sonnet
Old Lumberjack Sonnet
You see him in photos of black and white, standing atop logs drawn by big horses, he wears a thick wool to stay winter’s bite, almost as this as the draft team’s courses. Then he’s in a shack built in the forest, a table with food made by the cookie, no time for talking, and no time for rest, has to shovel...

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Categories: lumberjack, appreciation, history, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet



Lumberjack
a lumberjack  first cuts a bough then its shadow -- Souvenirs of Silence, Soman Gouda...

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Categories: lumberjack, imagery, imagination, metaphor, solitude,
Form: Haiku
Antique Loggers
It’s a romanticized picture hanging on my dining room wall, 1907 lumberjacks, one perched atop lumber stacked tall. It’s winter, and they have a sled pulled by two horses, looking bored, twelve-foot pile of logs they pull, one teamster with long reigns aboard. It’s somewhere in the wilderness, the nothing of northern New York, four men on foot stand alongside, dressed in wool for cold winter...

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Categories: lumberjack, history, horse, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost River-Driver, Part Ii
...But times did change, the great drives stopped, the state came and blew up the rock, some though that Joe would now pass on, but he still showed up on dark nights, and his face was such a sad sight, a ghost depressed, his one last purpose gone. For decades the dead man looked blue, what kept him here, nobody knew, and he...

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Categories: lumberjack, death, heaven, history, nature,
Form: Narrative



The Lost River-Driver, Part I
It was a century ago when Joe Gibbs’ rode the water’s flow, driving logs through the river’s waves, a young man only twenty years, fast with a pick-pole, had no fear, and never had they seen a man more brave. At night he did joke with the guys, in drunken song his voice did cry, the river-driver’s all liked him, he could make the...

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Categories: lumberjack, death, heaven, history, nature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jim the Lumberjack
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 full of desire Sue his wife put on her sexy attire Things got steamy and hot He gave it all he got But with...

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Categories: lumberjack, humor,
Form: Limerick
Lumberjack Guide Senryu
i fracture the wood you soothe the splinters of truth i heal knowing more.......

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Categories: lumberjack, growth,
Form: Senryu
The Giant Lumberjack
There was a very old giant lumberjack of England, who was invited to dinner at a wood-house upland, but the chimney was a wee bit low, and the doorway came up to his toe, he cut down the house and they dined on bare land....

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Categories: lumberjack, children
Form: Limerick

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