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Would you read this rhymed dialogue and agree that 'there are no coincidences?
This morning, Dallas spoke about poets vs. wordsmiths and about the end of hatred. I wrote this one last night before I saw her comments today.
THE WORDSMITH AND THE BLACKSMITH
by Elaine
Wordsmith: Here is my plowshare, forge me a sword
With blade strong and sharp to cut a thick cord.
Blacksmith: I cannot do so, my forge has grown old,
My fire is dying and my hammer is cold.
Wordsmith: I am tired of planting strange seeds unknown,
Digging for words that no one has sown.
Blacksmith: Words can be sharp, as sharp as cold steel
To cut and to slash, when angry you feel.
Wordsmith: I cannot untangle the web I have wrought,
Its knots are too tight; to untie them I’ve sought.
Blacksmith: No sword can cut the strands of such words,
Once they are spoken, forever they’re heard.
Wordsmith: Then I will lie still in the heart of my web,
Wordless, unmoving, like Ocean at ebb.
Blacksmith: I fear you will sing the songs of your heart,
Until the last moment, when the web falls apart.
Wordsmith: Perhaps you are right; I must continue to sing,
And hope that some peace the future will bring.
Blacksmith: Peace is mythology, although you’re afraid,
Use well your plowshare that for you I’ve made.
Wordsmith: And as the Night takes me, I’ll think of you,
Hoping and praying that your words were true.
Sorry, Granny, I changed it in my files, but forgot to do so here. The line should read, "Dig with your plowshare in sun and in shade."
7 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I enjoyed this quite a bit. The blacksmith, of course, does not have to be a wordsmith, but the wordsmith does.
So - this stanza was unlike the others, which did read like that of a wordsmith:
Wordsmith: Perhaps you are right; I must continue to sing,
And hope that some peace the future will bring.
That is not exactly word-smithed (no offense) - particularly the forced rhyme at the end.
Your words strike the anvil of soul in my song
I'll sing futures peaceful, you hum right along.
Guess I'd say it like that. But I ain't no wordsmith.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I like it Elaine coincidences mmm lets see 230am
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- ?Lv 44 years ago
words that rhyme do not connote the comparable meaning. they only represent comparable sounded endings at the same time with draft and raft, deliver and clip, exciting and sunlight, and clean and concern. additionally, christiatnity does not rhyme with happy. words that rhyme with christianity are insanity conceitedness inanity inhumanity and profanity.
- 1 decade ago
Yowee! I give this piece big Pings.
I knealt before the Kings and Queens
of poetry who could hold or shatter
my passions dreams.
"We cannot take you to far off stars
we can only suggest, you attempt your best
and endure the graces as well as the scars."
- GrannyjillLv 71 decade ago
What an unusual format....it works beautifully here, though. (Where did you get the idea from?)
Use well the plowshare that for you I have made (?)....I found myself stumbling on your version of this line.
- OakwolfLv 61 decade ago
That's very cool, Elaine. "Digging for words that no one has sown." Great line in a/the great conversation.
