Short Chop Down Poems

In the media, we are told
that lots of us, have too much guts

What we’re eating, is not the best
and what we’re drinking, makes us a pest

Its healthy food, that’s priced to the hilt
chop down the price, so we don’t feel the guilt...

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The topic for today, “will we have a mild winter?”
Will we race through winter with the speed of a sprinter
Will spring come early
For me and my girlie
Or need to go into the woods and chop down more timber


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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The Jay and Me

Music to my ears,
Tears composed of salt water
Flow to the ocean.

A grey jay blends in
Wings of life singing praises,
The cedar its home.

I thank the framer;
Guilt doesn’t gnaw my conscience
Others chop down trees.

I fear death today
Earth circles the light of life,
Sans the jay and me....

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I won't climb
the branches of self pity
I won't swing 
from the weeds trying to find my kitty
I won't cling to the trunk
with tears in my eyes
I won't hide under the roots
telling myself lies

I am not completely sunk
I don't want to chop down the noble timber
But I need the lumber to build
My boat
So I can sail away
And find my fortune
My future
Instead of swaying in the wind...

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Economic Grows Theory  
A forest is beautiful to look at, it also has animals jumping 
about not being productive for our common good.
So we chop down the trees and make timber, never mind 
the animals they are dangerous anyway; who wants to risk
being attacked by a puma. On the cleared space we can build
 houses made of the former forest´s timber, this will give 
employment for many and that is good for mankind....

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TV’s Eight was Enough, so was nine too many?
And that nine from a dime, equals one penny.
We look forward to eighteen, so we can vote.
But at half that age, eighteen’s so far remote.
Some may want to chop down snooty twenty-seven;
Just divide by three, or take two from eleven.
Or better yet, add that same two onto seven.
Ah, Jee’s-Louise, these mumble-jumbling, topsy-turvy lines
All pale to the perfection of pure number nine!...

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I cant believe it's happening
Most people do not care
But everyone is guilty
Of putting a hole in the ozone layer

The time has come to think about
Just what we're going to do
The polar caps are melting 
And the animals suffer to

They say look to the future
But the future's looking bleak
To chop down a rain forest
May only take a week

We need to stop all fighting
We don't have time to row
We need to save our planet
And we need to save it now...

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to cremations

I once bled black sin
it poured from mine heart and kin
once cooled it curdled into crimson
heavy thick n haired like a bison
open and free to parch the land
to match the beat of the oncoming band
never in the crowded ground 
whilst markers lost point to me found
chop down a tree and place me on it
burn my sins and flesh til they split
offer me up to the king of all
so that I may never again fall
but rise ever more onto him as a
burnt offering....

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