Short Crucible Poems

Haiku 64
	
	
	Oklahoma heat
	roofers sweating at first light
	crucible of woe...

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Where once a fiery crucible 
changed the world 
a coracle 
reclaims its river...

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So what if you fail? 
Pain is a crucible.
 If you want it, 
let it be your poetry....

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nuggets of 
wisdom
mined 
from 
the
crucible 
of the 
misshapen
slumped figure
in 
the
disconsolate
wheelchair...

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Explosive birthing
genesis of the cosmos
create everything
everywhere then all at once 
with matter and energy
crucible of heat and light...

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Boy
Obstinate, belligerent,
Cursing, fighting, bullying,
Girl, crucible, ring, child,
Relenting, healing, sacrificing, 
Steadfast, kind,
Man...

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This is how, in the dry lands of printed words
we stir light in a crucible of swirling doubts.
Blindly we speak for the unknowable,
our lips shut tight in a dark room,
teaching fingers how to dream....

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Spring came like a crucible-
With a flicker, a spark, a bursting
Into color like a blossoming flame
Out of a crackle of breaking ice-
The sunlight burns through
With the brilliance of revelation
As season blazes into season,
A divine transubstantiation....

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One with oneness, bliss energised
Devoid of resistance 
In timeless time, God’s realised
For love, there’s no distance 

Ignition renewal
Bliss throb continual
In body crucible

When in stillness 
One with oneness 

01-March-2022
Quietus ...

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tied against the mountain
the blue children play
the  upturned apples' cart
scent filled the air
The Wild herons flew southwards
as the crucible sun hit the apex

Crimson skies laced against
the white aconite churchyards
We left, denouncing  the first hymn
we heard
surely someone has desecrated the night sky...

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Reduce burden on body and mind
Breath slow lest the void be disturbed
As a crucible of God's divine energy
With pulse of love, heart has concurred

Demons sometimes do raise their heads
Wafting divine fragrance heals pain
Enigmatic life movie plays on as ordained
For our nonchalant eye, it is no strain

25-October-2022...

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Summertime sang its chorus
Echoed through my brain
Springtime promised hope
Sending rain to clear the pain
I walked into the solstice
Prayed solace for my soul
Sacrificing my heart, your crucible
To purify the gold
I searched out the light, 
I stared into the sun
Its rays scarred my eyes
I couldn't read your runes
Loneliness consumed me 
In the darkness at noon...

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Twisted in eddies through whirlpools of living
we are experimentalists with emotions of affection 
as vocabulary of language cannot denote- 
for measures in words are profoundly inadequate   
for two spirits forged in the crucible of souls
tempered in moments by breath of existence.
 For no voice had nor thoughts expressed
      what heart has heard as love’s guest....

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 Let me take it back to the Old School where Courage was Virtue
 Heart Strong, Fearless, I'm Resolute
 Peep This
 I Got This Feelin, Like a Burnin Torch I'M LUMINOUS!
 Head High through the Crucible
 Wings Wide, The Flights Exuberant
 Light Bright
 My Hearts a Goliath,
 Soaring Up High, Golden Born like a Mastodon
 Ever Rising, Ever Glowing, Burning Bright like Saffron
...

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Is what we
do
all there
is?
Do we 
create 
the 
universe 
in
our minds?
Are our
ways
the only
ways?
Are
the
ways of
this 
world
the only
ways of 
sentient 
existence?
Are we
the 
crucible 
for future 
Universal
governance?
If,
we
are 
in fact
the
only 
sentient 
beings 
in this
cosmos 
we then
are 
setting 
the stage
for how the
cosmos 
will
be
governed!...

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We have freedom to create,
the right to participate 
and desire to aspire with our worlds dying fire.
Come close and I will share the story of love
that was held like a dove.
You may be aware, that it can lead to despair
But if you are willing to take the step into the Crucible
you may find the Humanity is shaped by our Insanity.



P.S (Crucible) using the meaning as (extreme test of faith)...

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Divinity’s candle
stays burning alive
not born or created
conceived or contrived

Its light from the center
forever shines through
the moment’s unveiling
delivering you

To places all knowing
through spaces unknown
the mix in the crucible
its myth to atone

The vision self-granted
when time is deposed
confirmed refutation
— with nothing to know

(Villanova University: January, 2024)
...

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Held fast by hatred's unholy crucible,
Drawn limbs taking leave of sockets blue.
Head hanging in forsaken sadness,
Praying for those responsible.

Forgiveness granted in absence of understanding,
All past and future wrongs laid on agony's shoulders.
Torture spikes of indignity piercing bleeding hands,
Enduring that crucifixion to save all us sinners.

Copyright © 2004 Robert William Gruhn...

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I strive to smelt my feelings in a crucible of art,
I plunge them into tears until the hissing starts;
And after they are cooling, then I hammer them with zeal:
A rapier forged of supple, double-edged poetic steel.

I lunge it at my enemies imagined…usually,
Or raise it in salute to valiant friends, so loyally,
Or turn the weapon on myself, then finally 
To stab my pretenses, skewered with “Why me?”...

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never another line beyond the standard crucible.
   
    perigan dive, falcon plain.
   
we all scatter.  

moving faster, simpler. 

 time talins sharpened flicker by..

 
look at that sensible head, such a sensible head,
 held by a thread.

  naked in the garden at the beginning. 
 
 got a get out of this skin sometime soon.

  never going to look back
  
   never that vulnerable again....

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it always is, a touch intimate
embraced, released, renewed
in a continuum of bliss sedate
delighting at myriad love hues

hollowed out form, magnetised
crucible of bubbling joy spacial
slow divine tease within realised
being to become a living miracle 

truth known, through inner sight
to which, each alone is witness
electrifying form day and night
melding presence with oneness

28-January-2021...

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Wakeful dispensations....

Traveling down reproaches weaving road at the speed of mono sound!?

Disintegrations decay within the rearview mirrors fiery blow-by-blows

Smoke and debris transformations strewn about whirlwind trails of sins

Destructive tales to form this phenomenon through, vestibules cryptic....  

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....Crucible amid, assimilations abstract theory?!...

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Venerated priest John Almond
our brother - reprover  of sin,
a good example to follow
and to give testimony to Christ.

He often had to dispute
with heretical ministers,
who came away so confused
as not to know what to say.

He went through the crucible 
of life and of unjust punishment.
He was indicted
for it was a treason

for a priest ordained
according to the Catholic rite
to live in England;
so he was martyred....

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New Casting



What I have to do
I view it now, askew
In stark contrast
To the vistas of my past
Fold to my futures, now, at last
In the crucible of years I cast
That which I am today
And the breadth of my cause
Will weigh my integrity and flaws
To find what strength life takes
And learn the most from my mistakes
Now, everyday, perfection waits
In the mold of the morrow
Slowly, I will dissolve my sorrow
From within you
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Whisper sent form hallowed shore 
Ancient breath of love and lore
In the tongue a silent hope
Gathers near an ancient rope

Hung from stars to sea-bound men
Plucked from foxhole, cave, and glen
Break from clay, a foolish turn
To quench the thirsting heart of yearn

Beyond the grasp of mortal man
Knows no end, yet here it stand
Endless beacon by a name
Reputation: human bane

Cursed crucible remain
Tattered tie in blood is stained...

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