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
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Poems from Makiwane poem – Amitabh Mitra poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the Birth of a Posthumous Child by Robert Burns
- Низами Гянджеви – Я долго шел по лугу лет
- On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson by Phillis Wheatley
- A Dedication
- Владимир Британишский – Океан с континентом воюют
- Last News About The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Шекспир – Дыханье мысли и огонь желанья – Сонет 45
- Валерий Брюсов – И вдруг все станет так понятно
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не дыми, голова трещит
- Ode on the Departed Regency Bill by Robert Burns
- XIII: Some Verses: On A Report On The Death Of The Author by William Alexander
- Олег Бундур – Праздник встречи
- Владимир Степанов – Эскимос (Буква Э)
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
