Woodwork Poems - Poems about Woodwork

Touring a Mansion

...My husband and I love to visit 
Old mansions once home to the rich.
It’s cool to see wealthy folks’ manors,
With which most people wish they could switch.

I admire the woodwork and paintings,
...

The Pied Piperess

...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet

Once upon a time,  there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...

Home Ec

...Women of a certain age
Remember, when in school,
Boys did woodwork, girls
Home economics, as a rule.

The boys made houses for the birds – 
They sanded, sawed and nailed
While girls both cooke...

Spectacle of the Untitled

...
dreaming color onto gray
dreaming     with open eyes
sometimes I think about nowhere, how 
I'll never see that same 
woman walk that particular way 
down that street donning those same 
shoes...

Ship of Dreams

...The ship of dreams
Opulent surroundings
Fancy bed linens
Luxurious dinner plates and tablecloths
Gleaming virginal utensils
Dazzling crystal chandeliers
Polished walnut woodwork
Gold gilded fi...

humanity

...Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ~ Samuel Beckett 

Line of enquiry: Newton’s First Law of Motion (Inertia): An object at rest stays at rest, and an obje...

money grubbing relatives

...money-grubbing relatives
oozed out of the woodwork and the shadows of greed
when Josephine’s death was announced
distant cousins she had not seen for centuries
demanded to know if she had left th...

Follow the Jewels

...Bustling town along the seaside, sapphires glitter upon the ocean
Buildings made of ivory stones, ruby shingles full of devotion
Clock tower of rosette bricks, stand proudly in the centre
Chimneys...

the best advice

...What do you write about? I am asked at least once a week
I try to give people tips, but I am not sure what they seek.
anecdotes are crawling out of my woodwork and my mind.
some of them are wild a...

The Urge

...The people who write,
for no apparent reason,
thinking maybe
that they are just wasting their life
scribbling down what the world calls poetry
or some other dumb name.

The people who write st...

Freethinker

...

       In the still of the night, 
spectro-gramming the hot utter of air,
filtered by laser strainer-
it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier
a black hole of sin in my pocket, 
a p...

Valentine's Day After

...The day after Valentine's Day,
for most may be sublime,
as a day achieved a measure 
of some success, while
others gave it no light of
day most likely from 
lacking a partner and
t...

Clementine the Bug Saver

...The ultimate bug saver is my cousin Clementine.
She makes them into friends and helps them dine.
Termites have eaten the woodwork off all of her walls.
Crickets and roaches follow her to all of he...

Sunday Street

...She walked down the street with her hands clasp in thine and for one moment it felt like something divine; she was walking out of an old life into a new one, but I couldn’t tell where she was from.
...

Stockman Endorsement

...handsome like the Marlboro man
I stared at the old lady, thinking it was funny
then I met him, a handsome jackaroo
jillaroos would come out of the woodwork now...

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