Reign Forrest

[The Wanderer]

"The Lumberjack"

warm, moist tongue of desire -- like an axe,
thru the forest it finds its way
valleys and hills are smooth and hot
awakening the drowsy floral
swirls of sun and rain
thickets are coloured with the darkness
open fields await with smoldering vaccuums
the paths around the creatures' nests,
hide the open graves of unsoiled virtue
and smell of its vitality
wipe the acid rain tears off the foliage,
dripping from the surface of delicately wrapped leaves and intersperced petals
dive into the maze of impure thoughts
and strip the bark to reveal the naked streets of green-eyed wilderness
the open mouth, the heart-severed, one
empty flesh in night's landscape
or fresh soil to tread and sow?
oh man, my tool is powerful!
one after another they fall -- my execution... my nature!
a horizontal death camp...
and I haven't even stepped foot in the forrest

 

[ladywithspinninghead]

My oh my Wanderer....my adrenaline is pumping...

And I know you ain't talking about a Canadian here!!! ha ha

 

[frogbat]

wonderous stuff from erm the wanderer (sorry couldn't help it)

there's an ambiguity interwoven in this poem that's very reminiscent of some of Beaner's best work. Either that or thanks to ManRay's post some time back I am becoming a bit too Freudian in my interpretations though I have a feeling it was all intentional huh?

"oh man, my tool is powerful"

 

[zooropamanda]

powerful analogies

sometimes your writing just drips from the page.

the sexual undertones of a forrest....

 

[bicyclingfish]

While I was reading, my mind drove or walked past another damn section of clearcut, and I thought of the rape of environment.

 

[Loafer]

OMG, wanderer, this is amazing. Its like black comedy, just really dark humor fired with sexual energy about man feeling the same about women as he does about the earth: they're both territory to dominate.

Wow, this poem is brutal, sexual, funny, and all the while makes an an amzing statement. Awesome poem wanderer.

 

[The Wanderer]

this is one of my own favorites of all I've ever written, don't know how it holds up, but I like it a lot

 

[BabyGrace]

I think what Loafer said...

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You make yourself vulnerable to change in your life. But in the end, you've got to become the change you want to see in the world.
-the B-man