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coffeesp00ns  ·  3670 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: What Anchors You?

   Iron, cold to the touch
   cold to its very bones
   and yet, when held to flame
   burns hot, and stays hot
   
   Whatever direction pulled upon
   it holds fast to the deep,
   resolute in continence
   in that cold, briny well 

   A heart of Oak
   to temper my heart of clay
   as yet unkilned, unmoulded, unshaped
   with cool, calm Iron to hold me fast.