Best Foundry Poems
Paths To the FoundryThe World is a testing ground to burn out impurity,
a forge of sorts,
sorting out infermity.
A Threshing floor
of chaff and wheat.
The bread of life consuming your choices as you eat.
Of it's variety,
it's buffet of sensual self offerings.
Alongside a...
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Categories:
foundry, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Ramble Around the FoundryIt’s been a day, brother, it’s been a day.
I’m ridiculous for lack of content,
All my plot holes are on display.
Am I doing OK? Am I having a day?
I can’t get a call back. I sat on a thumb tack.
It woke up my skinny white ass.
I’m...
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Categories:
foundry, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form:
Burlesque
The FoundryWhat is… inherent,
what’s not… implied
Epiphanous moments
—waiting inside
(Bryn Mawr College: January, 2021)...
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Categories:
foundry, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Foundry and MillLarks are ascending funnels of sky,
songs smoke from enteral chimneys.
In an industrial park a fine Autumn light
burns bright.
Shoes fill with walkers,
we are out and praising
the clanking machinery,
for we are all leaves
in the same furnace.
What we suppose
to be sleep and decline
is a wooded factory, a...
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Categories:
foundry, poetry,
Form:
Free verse