Short Timbers Poems

Tumbled timbers tempted ten tiny termites....

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Frigid timbers creak 
Bearing heaviest snow yet ...
Warming sun awakes...

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Shiver me timbers and blow me down

    By climate change Juneau who was drowned...

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massive oak timbers 
hearty men piped to action
mighty war machine
planks resisted cannonballs 
like our nation, still afloat...

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and
the Pirates
that used an ‘X’ to 
mark the spot were really stupid, 
if they’d used a ‘G’ 
no-one would   
have found
it...

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GRAZING MOUNTAIN SIDES-

favorable mount
a coarse, strong grasses reaching
into the timbers




8/22/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And hoist up with a good Jolly Roger...

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I Saw Timber Saw

With my natural eye I saw a tree that stood rather so very tall;
“To clear my way of passage timbers was cut with sharpen saws” 



8/24/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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Forrest ever so;
Reigning O'er me;
Towering,
Spruce timbers be;
100 feet high and more;
While others you have just below, the skies;

11/20/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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 As the night timbers,
The bright sun enters,
Turning the world warm,
Touching everything without warn,

Hands seemingly golden,
Heart without a single burden,
Such a pretty scene,
In that small garden. ...

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There was a one-eyed pirate named Fred
Who wanted to reform and get wed
The wench who took his measure
Had got used to the treasure
So she shivered his timbers instead

4-6-19
Contest:Pirate Themed Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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PRAYER  AFTER   STORM

 
Soundly now the timbers sleep
As the wind drops away
Now the boat drifts on the deep
And the crew begins to pray
 
That the past day’s fight
And the struggle  tomorrow
May be met with might,
And end without sorrow...

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Starry nights extol classical
staccato hues as hawthorn winds
pronounce timbers as magical.
Starry nights extol classical
violins sway as magical
sentinels praising summers’ end.
Starry nights extol classical
staccato hues as hawthorn winds....

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A dark unlit room
Minimum realms of cold dreams
Reaches my heart crate
Timbers shook the proud fabric
Existing within dream world

Russell Sivey

Entrant into PD's "any poem about dreams.. (old or new)" contest

2/17/2012...

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Standing in a woodlot
A boneyard of fallen timbers
Lifeless they are

Warming sun on earth
Thick with bush
Bulging buds spring forth

Where violets grow
A stream - flowing low
Scarcity of winter snow

Painful to the eyes
Stands of willows gnarled
An artist records...

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Trump's Toppings Topple

trump tries to think tank
that today's tomorrow thrives
thankfully to thee

tending the tree tops
trump trumpets thee's theory
thy timbers topple

to the thereafter
thy tapering tears thunder
trump's think tank twaddle's

connie pachecho

8/30/17...

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As thunder boomed and lightning flashed,
The rotting mansion seemed to speak;
The trembling pair, their eyes immense,
Began to shake with each new creak.

Decrepit timbers groaning then,
The pair agog, despite their boasts,
‘We have to stay and see it through.’
They couldn’t leave: they were its ghosts!...

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Once it was colored an autumnal red
now it is a russet prop for the sunset.

The land has stacked evening around it,
mellow dusks have laid down decades,
of plowed-up shadows.

Seen against an ebbing horizon,
the barn blooms beyond its timbers,

its fading form fills-in the blush
of a half-painted sky.
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the pier ghostly
as the fog rolls in---
weighing anchors
was it not here
we met the first time?

heavy mists
of memories
making steps---
timbers creak
yet, I find you not

this dampness
that rolls from my eyes---
tangible streaks
that exhale
the unforgettable you

© Debra Squyres 
    Tanka Trio 1/10/16...

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Squeaky Clean Floors of Teak
All clean and shiny is my teak
When they step on my 
Glossy black my heart leaps
Joyous smiles deep down my timbers leak
You can see your face and physique
When you look at me
Don’t walk on me with your dirty feet
Shhh….. Whisper when you speak
If you’re real quiet you’ll hear me squeak....

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A THOUSAND SHIPS 


Is this the face, this old hulk in the salt marsh? 
Is this my lady with creaking timbers
 and peeling skin? 

 A mere figurehead, a turkey prow, 
missing one oar, grandiloquent, vainglorious, 
still fighting the old sea-battles
with the wind and waves

the thousand ships
 that lie at the bottom of the sea....

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What does Grass do
  When winter comes to town
Does it shiver its timbers
  Does it freeze underground

Why no! Grass is first-class
  How else could it last
Through snowfalls so deep
  No sunlight dare seep...

Grass dons fancy jacket and hat
  Wad of bills and all that
Bows to winter's autocrat ~
  Who adjusts the thermostat...

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rough lumber
and 32 inches of 
concrete stabilized cobb
with interior and siding
and rough lumber ends
to make the interior
look like a log cabin
a overlapping roof
with windows centered
16 inches inside
the
rough lumbered walls
a rustic modern
living area
to sheild the
persons from the
ruffs of winter
and the harsh heat
of sumer....

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We are the rattlesnakes
The mighty mighty rattlesnakes
We bite you if you make mistakes
We are the mighty mighty rattlesnakes

We slither out of timbers, out of closets and worse
We refuse to pay a king taxes from our wallet or our purse.
We will give you nightmares. You will flinch from our bite.
We are the rattlesnakes, primed and ready for a fight....

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Bloodless insects slink down cracks and fissures
   Chastised Earth mumbles her prayer
Aimless buzzards circle, eyeing lifeless shores

Dreaded gases envelop jungles
   Mighty timbers writhe on forest's floor
Weeds grotesque choke once-cities
   Soundless streets of dark glory's gore...

Stagger, Stumble, Wretch and Heave
   The Last Day on this Planet grieves...

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