Short Smithy Poems

The Lady Smithy
By: Miracle Man
6/4’2023

The words she used were sharp and pithy,
she had huge arms, her being a smithy.
She didn’t stammer, 
and she had glamour,
She eloped with a man surnamed Withy.
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Love forged in the anvil of a sheltered heart 
Where the wind gusts to cast its vivid blow 
The baneful storm could not cause its verve to part 
For the ember warms to rouse its even flow 
Heart that's pounded with the hammer of affection 
Shapes to harden with a deep sense of devotion...

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the smithy was empty
and the tree near it had fallen
and no one had expected it
the sunken sun had made a stand
with desperate gaiety
swept through sleep
to break the night

The Autumn children
like caged birds
counted the crocus stalks
and for footfalls of a misbegotten
soothsayer
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smithies come and go
all legacies and legends
there's iron everywhere

waiting to be made
all longing to be crafted
wanting to be used

piercing hammer ring
so brilliant and resounding
finest cutting edge

curves of precision
never yielding to any
save the wielding hand

said the lyric man
only iron sharpens iron
now i understand

never wonder why
said the smithy in return
now i understand
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Listen to poem:

smithies come and go
all legacies and legends
there's iron everywhere

waiting to be made
all longing to be crafted
wanting to be used

piercing hammer ring
so brilliant and resounding
finest cutting edge

curves of precision
never yielding to any
save the wielding hand

said the lyric man
only iron sharpens iron
now i understand

never wonder why
said the smithy in return
now i understand

http://mike-martin.net/Now I Understand...

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