Best Crucible Poems

The crucible savant..    by Steven Hudson
(Crucible: A place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence  change or...

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Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
...

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Soul progress
     back field in motion
The guff
     Chose, chose, live grow leave!  GO!

Leapt from heaven's gold
Jump...

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"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in heaven."

A thousand, million years had fled
then thousand million more,
yet it was still the...

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No matter how distressing
  Everything comes with a blessing

A bitter divorce
  seems wrenching, of course
Yet through its crucible of fire
  you can...

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8. Transformation

Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the...

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An Devil's Dalliance


It was just one of those mornings?
Or at least I think it was, that is,
if I had created “morning’s” yet.
All my little angels...

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G rowth requires the reins of pain, the curing singe of fire
I nside we shrink, we quiver, quake but we rise inspired
V ictory through vice,...

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The waters trickling under the
crossing bridge grows ever dormant

And on the one and only discernable
route into this village languishing beneath
there is a old rickety swinging...

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shall I dwell  
           in the palette of extreme  
   ...

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super bloom

fall rains soak deserts
 spring hills wear capes of bluebells ~
  baby-blue-eyes quilts

poppy crucible
 canyons cradle blue lupine ~
  flowers paint deserts

golden...

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Rock of foundation,
precious cornerstone
Allow our sparkling tears
to ascend 
unto Your heavenly sapphire ears
Hear the pleas of the lowly,
and arise O, Lord
to vanguard our righteous cause
As...

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Break me into a thousand shards. I'll feel the pain
and make myself whole again, so once more you can
split me until my spirit has been...

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Perilous!!! I dare not stay in such situation
Where terror prevails from attacking wild beasts
Midst tormenting sight of barren land
Leaving me gripped with solitude-angst.
Aware of my...

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Dead faith… 
 was then I had 
  being smitten in trespasses and sins.

     By hearing God’s Word…
  ...

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