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Teamster Poems - Poems about Teamster


The Robyn Williams Encounter
...Early 90s a friend of mine was some kind of Teamster working on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City. I was in town visiting and invited out one day to the set of some stupid show but I met William De......

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Categories: teamster, funny, inspiration, power, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Star of Bruthen
...There are no records of the man who raised this grand hotel. But there are many stories of the folks who new it well. Thank God for the patient horses at the hitching rail who carried home their r......

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Categories: teamster, history,
Form: Lyric



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, twel......

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Categories: teamster, history, horse, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Day Guy Montreaux Died, Part Ii
......A big log bounced from way up top, and before Guy could react It struck his square across the chest, up rose a sickening crack. We sprinted quickly to our friend, who lay helpless in the sn......

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Categories: teamster, death, history, loss, nature,
Form: Narrative
The Day Guy Montreaux Died, Part I
...Back in nineteen hundred and three I working with a logging crew, cutting and limbing mighty trees, be they hemlock, pine, or spruce. We worked for the Nowell Paper firm, in the shades of the ......

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Categories: teamster, death, history, loss, nature,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Steamboat Is A-Comin'
..."Steamboat is a-comin' 'round the bend!" My! Oh my! The wonders it might portend, As it stopped by sleepy towns along the Missisip', Dodgin' stumps and wayward rafts on its monthly New Awlins trip......

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Categories: teamster, boat, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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