Best Forges Poems

...The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard......

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...Your paradigm's a relic and yes, 
a plea from data's cemetery
While I sculpt luminaries on screens 
a sable sea.

"Company loyalty!" a myth 
spun in your reverie.
But AI forges kingdoms 
in e......

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...Necessity 

is the anvil upon which 

destiny forges one's character 


by using 


the hammer of life's afflictions 

according to divinity's 

Will!








© Demetrios Trifi......

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...I wake—
each dawn
a slender promise
shoulders gilded,
by hesitant sun.

The world, wide as longing
real as the air I breathe—
crests of mountains waiting
horizons keeping their couns......

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...All round the ring of Kerry’s highways, people point and cry
It’s 4 o’clock on the very dot and Mick’s rig is passing by,
It has glistening sheens of yellow, with cinnabar spots in red
Rich lozeng......

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...Journey through Life  ©

happiness, the fire
forges our steel to withstand
pain and thorny times

laughter melts metal
cold bath sets the steel mettle
fine blade to cut life

blade wrapped ......

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...Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical incest projects......

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...Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an iso-pawn so cyni......

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...In the pit of the underworld
His hammer strikes the steel
He forges metal 
And he forges life

For life started in fire
Than cooled down 
Like water cools down steel
He forged metal

He for......

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...She looks at him and whispers, "I'm afraid of falling."
     He smiles at her and replies, "I'll catch you."


A poem was brewing in my head
like the tea bag in my cup
drowning in roilin......

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...A great mind is a curse and a blessing, 
It is the engineer of furtherment;
Yet, it is loathed by its inheritor.

It begets its host a wealth of stardom,
Though this abundance of fame is deteste......

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...How many people with foreboding palpitations
have I seen slip from middle age and slide into old age?
They slither into their last refuge, the dirt hole,
and ignorantly nestle into the forever unk......

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...Beneath the passage of the sun
I surrender thoughts to a mindless haze
and turn my eyes around to gaze
upon the wave of rolling hills,
where tender grass is ever growing-- 

Where cattl......

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...Mother Moon, queen of the night;
guardian of her children;
you light the way so that they might envision
with clarity, not provided by daylight.

The formative years are spent
in you......

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...Rain, like angry teardrops, forges rivulets down the window pane
while threatening gray clouds thunder above, 
fat with their delivery

Flickering power dances with the lightning in a contest of shad......

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