I am completely overwhelmed to have won the perfect poet award for week 48. More than anything it wonderful to be read and have so many great comments. Here’s to all you readers and writers out there, and all the inspiration you pass around, like torches burning in the depths of night.
I would like to nominate: BragaThe Sword
06 Jul 2011 36 Comments
by mbwilliams in Poems Tags: Arts, Blacksmithing, character, inspiration, life, Martial Arts, Mental Health, Metal Craft, Online Writing, Personality, Philosophy, Poetry, pots rally week 48, Religion and Spirituality, Samurai, spirituality, sword, Thought, thoughts, warrior, Warriorship, way of the sword, way of the warrior, Wisdom, Zen, Zen Mirror
There are many parts of a life,
That make up the whole,
And many components of a man
That forge his character.
Chill winds and winter snow,
Or sun and sea,
Each can test a man and temper his steel,
The mix of the iron the bough
That breaks or bends,
In the storm of his making