Focus Pocus
...not attention on prison
Someone attentive to durk
like a woodsmen shirt
what a jerk
I got same play anyway
got the same old score
and I do the same old thing
you know me well
you sure as...
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Categories:
woodsmen, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Earthbound
...Splintered souls are rising
and falling down below
the reasons are not surprising
but the outcome is still a blow
watch out says the woodsmen
blasting out kindled ashes
mistaken are the poor ...
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Categories:
woodsmen, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
A Haiku Anthology - Trees
...leaf litter
posted each autumn-
tree greetings
trees laid bare
exposed each autumn-
squirrels dreys
treecreeper
on woodland depends-
small copses
tulip trees
rosewood mahogney...
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Categories:
woodsmen, nature,
Form: Haiku
Biko the Woodsy Owl
...Biko came down from heaven
brought a message from Jesus to impart
the sun comes up every morning in full view of the day
one must be humble enough to bow the knee to pray
I'm a messenger ...
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Categories:
woodsmen, anger, anxiety, arabic, art,
Form: Free verse
Why the Willow Weeps
...Why The Willow Weeps
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a beautiful park in a sunny valley.
In this park there were three Willow Trees. In those days the Willow was a proud tall tree,
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Categories:
woodsmen, cry, loss, sorrow, tree,
Form: Narrative
3
...homeless with guns at my side and on my back
armed for the attack of police and high society
woodsmen tired of the built in deceit of a concrete world
eats flesh burnt on a fire I built
wild on...
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Categories:
woodsmen, america,
Form: Free verse
Woodsmen Day
...Woodsmen Day ( Poem)
Sport using handsaws
With a toothed edge blade
One or two handed sawing
On a woodsmen fair day
Traditional log rolling
Is a lumberjacks technique
Style used in river d...
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Categories:
woodsmen, adventure, community, culture, encouraging,
Form: ABC
Grove In Deep Woods
...Apart road and trail in gentle grass
a stand of aspen swell the meadow,
shielding gale and storm to pass.
Insulated peace under bough to rest,
beneath the greenery a hidden nest.
A curtain from judg...
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Categories:
woodsmen, allegory, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Little People Ii
...LITTLE PEOPLE II
if you look closely
at the forest of deep green
for a few seconds
you might see little glints
tiny eyes between the leaves
they live to chatter
high-pitched voices barely sound
whe...
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Categories:
woodsmen, father, life, , cute,
Form: Tanka
Love, Loss, and Repitition
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Channeling through to
the screaming demon
a wall thin as a sheet of silk
reflecting like a piece of glass
all that I ask
I all I can do
I can bring
an end to the rain
for nobody ever
wil...
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Categories:
woodsmen, angst, confusion, friendship, loss,
Form: Free verse
Huntin Nuttin
...“Huntin Nuttin”
By Dane Smith-Johnsen
Hush up! We be huntin’
Ain’t seen no nuttin’ yet.
I wont me some muten.
Geet dat dere tree stan' set.
Sho wheel be glad ta see
Dis yers buck a-...
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Categories:
woodsmen, animals, funny, sports
Form: Rhyme
Deep Freeze
...the crunching of frozen leaves
loud at each carefully mistimed step
tells the occasional small sentinels
birds squirrels and small creatures
a larger being is coming through
their alarm filters...
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Categories:
woodsmen, food, nature, seasons,
Form: Bio