|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF SCARS ARE WORTH THE KEEPING, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH
First Line: Steel, hard to dent, once dented
Last Line: That flowers where you bleed!
Subject(s): Scars
First Line: Steel, hard to dent, once dented
Last Line: That flowers where you bleed!
Subject(s): Scars
Steel, hard to dent, once dented
Is history of blows
That, by the rust augmented,
Barren resistance shows --
And that is all one knows.
O heart I thought to harden
To steel to bear the blow,
You grew more like a garden
Time walks and the winds sow --
And seasons come and go.
The sod, where heels were twisted,
Springs back at last in rain.
Spots, sometimes flower-misted,
Some prone earth-pressing pain
First crushed where it had lain.
If scars are worth the keeping
The steel is rich indeed --
O heart, this wistful reaping
Of restless waiting seed
That flowers where you bleed!
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE ANNIVERSARY by DAVID BOTTOMS
ON RECORD by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON
THE SOLDIER by JOHN DRINKWATER
UPON A SCARRE IN A VIRGINS FACE by ROBERT HERRICK
THE TIME AROUND SCARS by MICHAEL ONDAATJE
SCARS by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY