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Vocabulary

Forge

Don't unstring your bow.

I am your four-feathered arrow

that has not been used yet.

What does the word 'forge' mean in the following poem:

I am a strong knifeblade word,

not some if or maybe, dissolving in air.

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

Who made this night?

A forge deep in the earth mud.

What is the body?

Endurance.

What is love?

Gratitude.

What is hidden in our chests?

Laughter.

What else?

Compassion.

Don't ask what love can make or do.

Look at the colors of the world.

The riverwater moving in all rivers at once.
  

Top answer

A forge is a workshop for the blacksmith. In mythology, it is the place of fire and creative energy. It is also a place of destruction and purification.

  • A forge is a workshop for the blacksmith.
  • In mythology, it is the place of fire and creative energy.
  • It is also a place of destruction and purification.
  • Another poem (3 stanzas) Life is like a blacksmith's forge, with crushing blows, and heat that melts, the iron that is forged to steel, is purified by a remorseless will.
  • Some people run from the smithy's shop, along the easiest road they quickly stop, they are only iron, a metal base, in the sun and rain they rust and waste.
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A forge is a workshop for the blacksmith.
In mythology, it is the place of fire and creative energy. It is also a place of destruction and purification.

Another poem (3 stanzas)

Life is like a blacksmith's forge,
with crushing blows, and heat that melts,
the iron that is forged to steel,
is purified by a remorseless will.

Some people run

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