Best Forge Poems

I remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the mornings grass all covered with dew
I remember the dead man...

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My heart shaped in the furnace of our love
Burning brighter than a bladesmith’s forge
Hammered on the anvil of our passion
Folded time and again through our desire
 
Quenched in the icy waters of my soul
Hardened and sharpened through adversity
Ground and polished to a razor fine edge
Sheathed...

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Life is like a blacksmith's forge,
with crushing blows, and heat that melts,
the iron that is forged to steel,
is purified by a remorseless will.

Some people run from the smithy's shop,
along the easiest road they quickly stop,
they are only iron, a metal base,
in the sun and rain...

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“I’m gonna…i’m gonna lose it…” 
                — by the Poet

THE LONELY FORGE

who are the brave, those who begin
again and again—  their muscles
engage like a sputtering automobile.
small hills, like a...

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Schuylkill Valley Encampment, February, 1778

Dearest Beloved,

This letter, penned with nature still enwrapped in winter’s shawl,
Might reach your hands by April, should it reach your hands at all.
Your parcel came this morning, now I take the time tonight,
Before I sleep, to correspond with you by candlelight.

Our...

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I write upon our history, pen smeared in blood 
Human legacy, wars enduring shame 
Brushed aside indelible ink
Readily forgotten 
The pregnancy pain, bonny baby took away 
Scar tissue, for the time being hidden

Behind basic instinct, survival is driven
Truth brings denial, all set for replay
Hollowed out,...

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A journey usually begins With a whimper not a bang
So in this adventure I shall begin in a most unusual way

This is a story of the forge, a place that dreams are made
At the core of the Verse there is a place of beginning.
From stars...

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It is two hundred B.C.
For people these worlds see
Distances seem to stretch to infinity
There is little time to appreciate its beauty
But remember today
Is based on yesterday
And new ideas constantly come to light
And take flight

The artisan in Anatolia is forging a sword
But this kind of sword
Is...

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Have faith
                                       Let go past
  ...

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For ancient blacksmith to make horseshoe
It is not an easy thing to do
But only few
Can forge sword with blade that is true

But to make blade from aromatic steel
After five thousand years of bending steel
To our great will
Even now we don’t truly have that skill

Even if...

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Why for oft' aflutter in fear, oh oftener of the fiery forge forelorn,
By which binds in bronze of a metallurge, wears the neck around ye sworn.

The anvil awaits the hammer whose smith has struck with arms embraced,
Round lo flames and fumes of fuels and stones...

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Become heat, for the forge,
   so that the armor you bear will shine brightly.
       Your soul maketh radiance unmatched,
         so as the sunrise does lick over the lakes.
 
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Would you dare forge a sword of gold for war
When better yet is gold when it shines elsewhere?
Would ever you hold selfishly a star
When gentle is the kiss of candle fair?
Would brilliant diamond dream of nothing more
Than dismal darkness and so distant caves? 
And would...

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Lunar radiance this small hour
June fifteenth thousand and nineteen
(very early morning errand
to fuel 2009 Hyundai Sonata)
at Zieglerville, Pennsylvania Wawa
found gaze tugged toward

infinite celestial vault
luminous neon phosphorescent
quintessentially, punctually, outlandishly...
radiating, scintillating, treasuring
untold vast wonderment
since time immemorial

tremendous headlong rush
remembrance many moons ago
guiding yours truly
along beribboned multi use path
said...

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The Forge
by Michael R. Burch

To at last be indestructible, a poem
must first glow, almost flammable, upon
a thing inert, as gray, as dull as stone,
 
then bend this way and that, and slowly cool
at arms-length, something irreducible
drawn out with caution, toughened in a pool
 
of water...

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