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10/4/2020 1 Comment

Vocation

In his poem "Blacksmith Shop," Nobel Prize Winner Czeslaw Milosz associates his joy in witnessing the shop in action with his calling to be a poet.  He concludes his celebration of "a piece of iron in the fire, held there by tongs/ Red, softened for the anvil,/ Beaten with a hammer, bent into a horseshoe...
                                 
                                             At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor,
                                             Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds.
                                              I  stare and stare.   It seems I was called for this: 
                                             To glorify things just because they are.

                                               Provinces
                                               
Translated from the Polish                   
                                                by Czeslaw Milosz  
                                                and Robert Hass
                                                The Ecco Press             
1 Comment
Doris Wyatt link
10/12/2020 06:27:54 pm

The blacksmith is indeed like a poet,
hammering the metal into shape. I
like his analogy.

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    Neva Herrington

    Neva Herrington is a poet and former educator. She is currently working on a new book of poetry, a collection of short stories, and her memoir. Her inspiration comes from her own experience and the work of other poets.

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