Sitting With Some Old Friends
….sitting with some old friends,
and what is this need that shakes my be-ing,
till from the shards of my distant past,
comes the dust storm of ever present wood-chips….
….these friends have sat patiently now,
as the years pass and seasons come and go,
their numbers all-ways on the increase-decrease,
but with patience and expectancy they abide….
….my friends have with-stood the ages of change,
knowing that in these times-these too shall pass,
how often against the back-drop of shadow illusion,
I often feel their soul of wood starting to awake….
….these my friends live on the edge of chaotic desire,
where in-spiration is the off-shoot of maverick imagination,
and I often times be-come in-tangled in their future fate,
having long ago understood the need to hear them speak….
....friends as these have long ago accepted my needs of ego,
and yet they have shown me how to shape for the wood,
all the while giving me space to re-fine an art-full practice,
where wood meets the hands of one born to live a dream….
....up here i am truly in the freedom of silence,
where the winds of change can buffet my soul,
far removed from the busy chatter of noisy man,
and my dreams bear wings to soar with the clouds…..
—-by flp
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Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank
RusticWoodArt
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”....work smart, work safe, and live, to work the wood....”
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/
10 comments so far
Scott Bryan
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posted 42 days ago
Thank you, Frank.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
John in SD
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posted 42 days ago
Loveit ,Frank….........Thanks
-- Life used to be soooo much simpler!!!!
kolwdwrkr
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posted 42 days ago
Makes me wish I was in the solitude of the mountains away from the noisy man.
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scrappy
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posted 42 days ago
Thank you Frnk. Your insights into life are allways rewarding to share.
God Bless.
Scrappy
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jockmike2
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posted 42 days ago
Thanks Frank for your woodsman poetry. I will always enjoy it and save it to wash my soul clean. I too have felt the serenity you feel every day. Of course my times were way too short out there in that serenity. Your bud. God Bless, Mike
-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com
Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 42 days ago
I think you’re the poet laureate of us Lumberjocks.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
lew
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posted 42 days ago
GodSpeed to you Frank, and Thanks for these moments of insight.
Lew
Rustic
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posted 41 days ago
Thanks Frank I needed that
-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI
reggiek
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posted 40 days ago
Thanks again for the wise and wonderful inspiration…
-- Woodworking.....My small slice of heaven!
frank
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posted 39 days ago
....and many thanks for all the comments that have been posted herein.
Now talking about mountains and….; I took this one today, from a trip and hike up in the north country. And talk about solitude, we got off the beaten track and ended up following animal paths. I was joking with my wife when I told her I’m such an animal….LOL.
More on this later in a future blog story….just thinking now, maybe the title of the story should be, ’the many wooded colors of solitude’!
GODSPEED,
Frank
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/