Smithy Poems

King Kane you've done it again

...Ah King Kane.. you’ve done it again

Heavenly humility hums on a simply higher plane..

Angelic ability strums..curious necks studious crane

Classical charms forever waver but won’t wistfully ...

tight as a mouthful

...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 childr...

The Twilight Zone

...“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”                                         ~~Peter Marshall~~
"Need I say this was inspired by the t...

The Smithy

...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 ...

The Lady Smithy

...
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...

Village Childhood

...He was the village blacksmith
To us children he was known
As our adopted Uncle Wilf
They’d no children of their own.
Six days a week he worked,
His hours long and physically hard.
Our cottage b...

History's Greatest Miracle Play

...History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to spe...

Africa Is Not Your Lab

...AFRICA IS NOT YOUR LAB

Monumental carcasses impended: Africa is not a lab, 
A pinch of your pin is worse than knife stab -
Reducing a people you didn't create,
Solution is your cunning bait
Bu...

Wordsmith

...He's a stable smithy
Thinks his genius words are pithy
As he pounds, pounds, pounds
Into the night

Swings his big word-hammer
Never minding lies and grammar
Cuz he's gotta, gotta, gotta
Fuel...

Word Smith

...A smithy peers into a white hot
Ingot formed square
Seeing the idea of a meaning
Form there
How many turns at the anvil
How many soakings
In the heat
Long sweating hours hammering
Out her bea...

The Color of Saying

...The wordsmith toils over hot metal fonts in wellsprings
Struggling like a blacksmith to hone and shape 
    thoughts and images into typeface words and poems.
To conjure up meanings from thoughts ...

The Tale of Old Man Smith

...It was Old Man Smith’s farm this story begins, begins, gets told and ends,
And will never be anything more than a local story that’s told between friends.
You see, the cold night sky kept filling w...

Evening

...EVENING



Evening falls and wings are folded
Darkness clothes the weary sky
Birdsong awaits the daybreak
And rest descends on all

The battering hammer of the smithy
The barking blade of t...

Now I Understand

...
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 resoun...

Grievance

...Take it to the jester
He'll figure out the gist
Take it to the smithy
He'll bash it out for you

Take it to the juke
Hope they play it loud
Take it home to Liza
She'll send you to the zoo

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