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On the anvil of wording you forge the poem.
And as the smith delivers the pickax
only deftly wrought to dig the soil
you don't cease chiseling it
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Wonderful! When the tools of Poetry (inspiration, experience and hard work) , the most important and strenuous elements of the procedure, strong, abt and masculine sparks sculpt the genesis of great poetry.
I like your poem immensely! Love the imagery and the potency of your words!
Thank you, Sofia, for the kindness to have a generous word for it.
I wish I had written this Dimitrios you express it so exquisitely All poets understand this process so well
A normal experience of the struggle between the words! .thanks a lot, dear Norah.
Excellent work. Somewhere someone will relate to a poet's feelings, will feel the pain n pleasure the poet felt while writing. That's the beauty of writing. A writer is never alone in his feelings, there are many whose heart beats with a similar rhythm.
Your comment honours the result of the struggle to forge the words in a poem, dear Nosheen.
someone one day you will use it as a tool..i used to say this line when i'm gone you remember me this way.. thank you for sharing :)
That's exactly how a poem is born.The thought is beautifully defined with the apt words. A unique style of musing. Short but complete. Thank you once again
Υour kindness to notice it and have a generous word for it.Thank you too, dear Jaishree Nair.
A vivid portrait of true poetry being created in the workshop of the mind. Well done!
Well done, I love this short poem, I can see that spark! ! !
Aloha Dimitrios... Γειά σας It is with great pleasure that I comment on this gem of your thoughts...as this consciousness is very dear to me...... forge the poem, use it as a tool, to dig within, to find the spark, that lights the flame... and leads a readership onto a quest that leads them to more positive enlightenment.. my hopes, that each of US may have the consciousness, to be that bard, who makes a difference... On a mildly correcting note... the Pickaxe may not be the appropriate tool... Ball-Peen is the term for the particular type of hammer used by the smithy... However, You are using metaphor to express your thoughts and this may be your plan... please excuse me if IAM incorrect in these things... as IAM not such the critic... more of a curious, and avid champion of better thought... and indeed this prose is better thought... I thank you good Sir, for this very fine good morning poem... All of the best from this life, to you, and all of your relations... Michaelw1two
Oh, dear Michael.It does not consern the ball-peen which the smith needs for his own work.It conserns the pickaxes he works out for his clients.So the poet works out a poet for his readers.The poem has to be deftly wrought so that it can do the work planed to do to help the reader dig.......etc.Thank you so much for taking the courage to do me the favour.
Hi Dimitrios I am truly an authority of the English language. I would simply say in your final verse you need an article a tool, for example. The last line I would write and it lit its flame, otherwise the poem is absolutely wonderful and very creative. I am a Lebanese New Yorker. Greetings, Paul Amrod
Thank you so much Paul.Very kind of you the sugestions.I do agree with the first one.In english ''a'' tool is the right one, but I do not agree with yhe second one.I f I had one ''and '' inthe last verse the subject of the verb ''lit'' would change and ''tool'' woulf be felt as the subject, which I do not mean.I want as subject of lit the word ''spark''.Thank you again.If you find in other poems of mine expressions which have to be better alterd do please note them and let me know.
A note more.Judging from your sugestion I felt that the subject of lit was not obvious.So I changed ''it'' to 'which' so that not to remain any ambiguity that ''spark'' its subject.
I like this poem a lot; the illustration too. The term 'Wordsmith' has often been used to describe a competent poet, the same metaphor as here. I would suggest 'Anvil of words' in place of 'Word's anvil',
Τηανκ υοθ σο μθψη.Ι τρθστ υοθ ανδ ιμμεδιατελυ Ι ψηανγε ιτ αψψορδινγ το υοθρ Thank yo so much.I trust you and immediately i change it according to your kind sugestion.Do the same with other expressions too.
Thank you so much.I trust an english native speaking and change it immediately.Do, please, the same with other expression ogf mine.
anvil of wording is good, because wording implies the painstaking choice of words
This is my view of poem-making as well. I used to tell my Creative Writing students the word POET is from the Greek for maker and poets make poems. Your poem highlights this making with the heavy instruments of anvil and chissel. In the second stanza the reader continues the process by using the poem as a tool for his/her inner search, but now the imagery is archaeological. The reader is using the poem to create a new sense of himself. Know thyself, says the Oracle. And the poem makes it happen.
It is just as you describe it.This exactly was my target.What I admire in your critic, dear Daniel [ I have read toomany comments of yours elswhere]is this one ability you have, to find the core of its innere endelechia.
A poet chiseling the poem will find lots of satisfaction in his/ her finished product. It's final worth is really expressed in second stanza....lighting the flame in heart of others. Beautiful poem.
The poet is like a black smith chiseling thoughts on the anvil of poetry! A poet is a wordsmith, refining his words until the final product assumes the perfect shape he wants. The analogy of a poet to the black smith is quite apt!
I'm sure you too as a distinctive poetess feel the happiness to see your work taking the shape of a well wrought instrument.Thank you so much for commenting it.
You rightly expressed trough your poem - a poet is a smith of words. Poem is the forged product available to the user, the reader. Beautifully expressed. Thank you.
It is me who have to thank you for your kindness to notice it.I do see this effort in your poems to be so fruitful. s to wh
Yes, that's what poets do. Thoughts are shaped up on the anvil of poetry in to a tool of poem, so that reader can use the tool to do the job.he/she intends to. Perfect and wonderful analogy. I shall save it in my favorites list. Thank you for sharing.X
So the most when poets find in it something experienced in their own smith's work.Thank you so much.
A very well conceived and written analogy. This is how I see my process and hopes for the outcome. I try not to be just satisfied with a good poem that expresses an idea in general, but to hone the structure until it is as close to my true intent. Then, hopefully, time and interpretation will not only bring a meaningful understanding and relevance to the readers, but an insight into the author.
Moved by your kind promptness to answer my request.Pleased to hear from your lips that an analogous process you yourself follow with your own poems.Glad that you found the comparison to smith's work well conceived.Do please, if time left, compare the poem sent by the message and the one published in my page.I could not decide between the two renderings into english.In greek it sounds beautiful.I'm not sure which one of the two translations sound better.Thank you so much.Moved by your personality.
Kind words upon a personal labour are so encouraging.Obliged to your kindness.
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one of the toughest things to accomplish is a readable poem about poems. You did it. I love the way you found to make the words sizzle: Someone oneday will use it as a tool to dig within himself to find the spark Thanks! -Rich
Thank you Sir for the kind words.