Timothy Gega
01-30-2015, 07:43 AM
(A) Carpenter<o:p></o:p>
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Jesus swept!<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
It is the duty of every Carpenter at the end of the day on every job. <o:p></o:p>
If he didn’t (sweep) he couldn’t eat, (feed his family)<o:p></o:p>
or his good reputation (for future referrals) might be robbed.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Some Master carpenters were good and were called the “Chrestos, ”(“Christ”-opher)<o:p></o:p>
and he constructed things with his hands from the spirits of ancient tree ghosts.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
But don’t look at this carpenter from the end of a common broom.<o:p></o:p>
Without his tools and skills one wouldn’t be sitting on a chair or inside a room.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
If not for the skills, imagination and tools of this trade, <o:p></o:p>
Mankind today would be still living in a cold damp, dark cave.<o:p></o:p>
Generally treated like a servant or a common mutt, <o:p></o:p>
in his onlyness with nature he built the first man-hut.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>But that wouldn’t do, he didn’t stop there, <o:p></o:p>
he built the first dining table, a desk and a fine sturdy chair.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Besides sweeping and cutting and all of that, the carpenter sported many other hats,<o:p></o:p>
They became geniuses at carving trees just for the thrill of the crack of a ball on a bat.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
It was Cupid’s Love Bow and Arrow that he had whittled and made <o:p></o:p>
so it could outrace to the target against the slow wielded warrior’s steel blade.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
The thought of the wheel really wasn’t so hard to invent, <o:p></o:p>
he just cut off a tree-round and off down the hill it went. <o:p></o:p>
And getting that tiny little lead inside the wooden pencil was also time well spent.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And what of those fighting Spanish Crusaders and the old fishing Portuguese?<o:p></o:p>
Carpenters built those long ships for sailors to travel away on the ocean’s breeze.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And, was it also the carpenter that invented the first Belgian waffle<o:p></o:p>
in the Netherlands circa 14th century, <o:p></o:p>
or the Cornelius Swartwout family lineage <o:p></o:p>
that goes back to the Dutch Low Countries<o:p></o:p>
When he designed the non-slip waffle-head hammer? Perhaps not!<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And, speaking of sweeping up sawdust at the end of his day, <o:p></o:p>
was it the Chinese Carpenter who first swept all his sawdust away<o:p></o:p>
into some spilled starchy rice-water on his new kitchen bamboo Pergo<o:p></o:p>
that invented the first sheets of paper over 5 thousand years ago? Yeah!<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And once again on each winter’s long cold haul <o:p></o:p>
what else can the craftsman do to pay his dues<o:p></o:p>
but write some whimsical woodsy-wordy poems <o:p></o:p>
to prevent his own cabin fever, or avert his seasonal affective disorder Blues?<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Swinging a hammer is like throwing an axe,<o:p></o:p>
It requires a lot of finesse but not much syntax.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
1 house, 2 house, 3 house, 4, <o:p></o:p>
pretty soon a community will be knocking at your door.<o:p></o:p>
5, 6, 7, and 8, economies will thrive when flipping real estate.<o:p></o:p>
9, 10, 11, 12, time to put this silly poem back up on the shelve.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
©2015 Tim Gega<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Jesus swept!<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
It is the duty of every Carpenter at the end of the day on every job. <o:p></o:p>
If he didn’t (sweep) he couldn’t eat, (feed his family)<o:p></o:p>
or his good reputation (for future referrals) might be robbed.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Some Master carpenters were good and were called the “Chrestos, ”(“Christ”-opher)<o:p></o:p>
and he constructed things with his hands from the spirits of ancient tree ghosts.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
But don’t look at this carpenter from the end of a common broom.<o:p></o:p>
Without his tools and skills one wouldn’t be sitting on a chair or inside a room.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
If not for the skills, imagination and tools of this trade, <o:p></o:p>
Mankind today would be still living in a cold damp, dark cave.<o:p></o:p>
Generally treated like a servant or a common mutt, <o:p></o:p>
in his onlyness with nature he built the first man-hut.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>But that wouldn’t do, he didn’t stop there, <o:p></o:p>
he built the first dining table, a desk and a fine sturdy chair.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Besides sweeping and cutting and all of that, the carpenter sported many other hats,<o:p></o:p>
They became geniuses at carving trees just for the thrill of the crack of a ball on a bat.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
It was Cupid’s Love Bow and Arrow that he had whittled and made <o:p></o:p>
so it could outrace to the target against the slow wielded warrior’s steel blade.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
The thought of the wheel really wasn’t so hard to invent, <o:p></o:p>
he just cut off a tree-round and off down the hill it went. <o:p></o:p>
And getting that tiny little lead inside the wooden pencil was also time well spent.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And what of those fighting Spanish Crusaders and the old fishing Portuguese?<o:p></o:p>
Carpenters built those long ships for sailors to travel away on the ocean’s breeze.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And, was it also the carpenter that invented the first Belgian waffle<o:p></o:p>
in the Netherlands circa 14th century, <o:p></o:p>
or the Cornelius Swartwout family lineage <o:p></o:p>
that goes back to the Dutch Low Countries<o:p></o:p>
When he designed the non-slip waffle-head hammer? Perhaps not!<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And, speaking of sweeping up sawdust at the end of his day, <o:p></o:p>
was it the Chinese Carpenter who first swept all his sawdust away<o:p></o:p>
into some spilled starchy rice-water on his new kitchen bamboo Pergo<o:p></o:p>
that invented the first sheets of paper over 5 thousand years ago? Yeah!<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
And once again on each winter’s long cold haul <o:p></o:p>
what else can the craftsman do to pay his dues<o:p></o:p>
but write some whimsical woodsy-wordy poems <o:p></o:p>
to prevent his own cabin fever, or avert his seasonal affective disorder Blues?<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Swinging a hammer is like throwing an axe,<o:p></o:p>
It requires a lot of finesse but not much syntax.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
1 house, 2 house, 3 house, 4, <o:p></o:p>
pretty soon a community will be knocking at your door.<o:p></o:p>
5, 6, 7, and 8, economies will thrive when flipping real estate.<o:p></o:p>
9, 10, 11, 12, time to put this silly poem back up on the shelve.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
©2015 Tim Gega<o:p></o:p>