Iron, that malleable thing
can be forged in fashion first seen in smithy’s mind.
He fires and draws
punches and bends
smites and cuts and fires again
each stay in the coals increases the iron’s tenderness
redsorangesyellowswhites glow like comets, traverse the darkness
Sparks sap resistance.
Hammer clangs, first to iron, then to steel it’s song of change,
Is it hammer or anvil that claims victory?
Or the iron that yields — with or without its will?
Anvil, that ancient force uses me to play its song and
there is no melody without the suffering of strikes.
Good smiths let the iron do its bending with
just … gentle …guidance.
Force and blow do something to the soul and
there are strikes that can never be corrected. Once made
they live forever in the iron…
hidden… silent… waiting…
for the next repair when
hope foments change and
Crack
all is lost and left lying on the anvil
in disgrace.
Copyright ©: Olga Dytyniak
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Psalm 87 poem – John Milton poems
- Savour Your Life by Ronald G. Auguste
- Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Гумилев – Ночь
- To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 5. Sometimes I Hold it half a Sin poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Arcadian Winter by Willa Cather
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 44. She Is Far From the Land. Томас Мур.
- Михаил Лермонтов – Бухариной
- In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
- Chaap Tilak poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Idylls of the King: The Marriage of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- English Poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Satan Broken Loose. Перси Биши Шелли. Тень Ада
- On a Prospect of T’ai-shan by Tu Fu
- Told by Philip Levine
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