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Woodcutter.







I left my footprint
on the woodcutters head
and left him lying
by the oak now dead.


I went for a stroll
and noticed his saw
I found his car
...oh dear!, it's no more.


A wheel over here,
A door over there
an axle now scrapped
 I've stripped it quite bare.


Now All that's left
is a chassis in black
a footprinted head
and a car for the scrap.




Moral of the tale.

...what the lord gave
he taketh away
[sometimes he moves
 in mysterious ways..].

 





 



 



 

Author notes

Inspired by something J'aime Coudre said to me.

A contest entry

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  • angelica silver member
    July 23, 2008

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    Dear Georgina, This one I should have read first as I see it's a sequal to the other.
    Another great poem my sweet.
    Joan


  • Hinemoa silver member
    July 23, 2008

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    Dear Georgina,
    I'm sorry I'm late in commenting, I have to wait until I go to my friend Betty's place to use her PC.
    The wood chopper certainly needed something done to him for cutting down the tree, dunno about killing him and his car though. Although it's not really true I know that! I wonder why he chopped it down? It would be interesting to know.
    I enjoyed reading your poem.
    Love Hine


  • jenelda silver member
    July 20, 2008

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    Oh, what a shame to cut the trees down in the forest, well, he got his punishment for doing such a dreadful thing. And I bet he wouldn't have liked to have seen his car wrecked..just as well he was dead!
    Great poem and good luck in the voting.
    Jen

  • Yemassee gold member
    July 17, 2008

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    LOL, Oh my I didn't know we were allowed to kill people in this contest...darn my next entry is going to be a doozie!

    I read your other entry, just haven't commented yet so I have an idea why this poem got written. It's hard seeing something you liked destroyed seemingly without reason. Lets hope the wood is used to keep a poor family warm or something like that.

    Would this be a bad time to say I just finished cutting my winter wood? I have a feeling you are going to leave your footprint on my butt!

  • Eusebius
    July 16, 2008

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    bravo

    This brought tears to me eyes--I wept like a baby! Damnably funny stuff here!! bravo... bravo... bravo...


  • Maureen silver member
    July 13, 2008

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    Revenge is sweet! I'm not usually a vengeful person but..THAT WAS A 100 YEAR OLD TREE! "Just deserts", says me!

    Enjoyed your poem! Best of Luck in the contest!



    <3 Maureen


  • basilisk
    July 13, 2008

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    This is an interesting take on "ecological footprint"! I think the poem can be read as an allegory of what nature is going to do to all of us if we don't get our act together soon.

    • Blankscreen2222
      July 13, 2008
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      Thanks Mike,

      Seems that there are a lot of 'tree lovers' in this neck of the woods (no pun intended). A few years back when the 2nd runway was planned at Manchester Airport a group of green save the earth fanatics took to living in the trees on the land where the runway was going to be.

      They stayed there for weeks on end and built little bridges from tree to tree so that the community could all visit with each other without having to leave the treetops. Of course it didn't stop the developement of the runway taking place but it did hold the proceedings up for quite some time as the lumberjacks and diggers could not start work whilst people were residing in the trees. It was main headline news in both newspapers and on the tv for a number of weeks/months and helped to create a very good 'public awareness' campaign at the same time.

      G.


  • J aime Coudre silver member
    July 13, 2008

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    Thank you so much for putting it back in the contest...I am not sure about any one else but I see a great deal of humor and justice in this act of "killing' his car in such a brutal way as he did with the tree...as you say, 'God works in mysterious ways' and he sends his angels to do it for him...


  • hugh wyles silver member
    July 13, 2008
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    Dear Georgina,

    I think it's great what you just did,
    to leave your footprints on his lid
    but praps you went a tad too far
    in sawing bits from off his car?

    I think I'll go to the Council park
    and saw their cars up for a lark
    and, when they try arresting me
    I'll chain myself to a willow tree.

    More applause, more love, more hugs and XOXOXO Hugh (R.)

    • Blankscreen2222
      July 13, 2008
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      Dear Hugh,
      The woodcutters car is probably as important to him as the tree was to me. It was a shock to discover what had happened to the tree.

      It hasn't been removed or anything it's just lying there on it's side, hacked down, not a clean cut job. It fell down the banking with the top half resting in the stream. It looks quite horrific and if I hadn't seen the jagged saw marks I might have thought it was an act of nature taking it's toll. I can't help but hope that the water may drag off one of the smaller newer branches and something maybe take root further along.

      Thankyou for your kind comments.
      xxxGeorgina & Rufus .

      • hugh wyles silver member
        July 22, 2008
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        Dear Georgina,,

        I can't remember whether I told you about our local residents' protest to the City Council who have contracted an Arborist Firm to remove the remaining willow trees along the banks of the Heathcote river here. They already removed about twenty and plan to take out about fifty more.
        These weeping Willows were planted as saplings by pioneer settlers of Christchurch (in Canterbury/NZ.) Brought from the Isle of Elba (where Napoleon was first exiled) they have graced our river for over a hundred years. Perfectly healthy, they have thrived in our moderate climate and have grown to a size at which our Council claims they cannot afford the maintenance (pruning) costs. The Arborists cut them down to ground level, leaving the unsightly stumps which are a most distressing eyesore.
        Considering the enormous Council expenditure on useless and annoying traffic islands and other 'traffic-slowing' devices that they are erecting all over the city, costing hundreds of thousands of ratepayer dollars, (not to mention other wastes dreamed up by Council 'advisers') we are trying to put a stop to what we consider unwarranted official vandalism of the city's heritage beauty.
        The outcome is still to be decided but at least we have gained a 'stay of execution'.

        • Maureen silver member
          July 23, 2008
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          Dear Hugh,

          Best of Luck in your campaign to save the remaining willow trees. It ought to be a crime when people destroy beautiful trees. They should be fined and made to plant new trees. Please let us know the fate of the beautiful willow trees!

          Love and hugs,
          Maureen


  • catz Moderators member
    July 12, 2008

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    Lol... serves him right. And after reading your other contest entry about cutting down the oak trees, I can see this as a great follow-up to it.

    Good luck in the contest

    Dee

    • Blankscreen2222
      July 13, 2008

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      Thankyou Dee, yes it is a follow up piece and I am not usually in the habit of wanting to saw anyone's car to bits (lol)

      Georgina & Rufus

  • J aime Coudre silver member
    July 12, 2008
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    Wonderful

    I love it and ithas just the right amount of humor and a tad of threat....great job and good luck in the contest...I love when I am an inspritation to people...

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