IRON AGE
Phoenix rises
Cobbled together
By a compendium of pyrites
Forged to link all destinies
Shaped to gird our worlds
And outreach Babylonia
Igneous intrusion
Metamorphic rock
Freed from your sedimentary bed
White heat in the crucible
Running now
Red ingots of desire
Ladled to all requirements
Manacled by steel
This shining age
Rusts towards a new millennium
MAN OF STEEL
I fuse bits of metal together;
A sculptor of steel.
Inanimate iron
Comes alive in my hands.
Angle-iron,flats,beams and round bars
Are my materials.
I heat them, bend them
Shape them and weld them.
I can make anything with steel;
A strong frame
That will hold a skyscraper
Erect;
A steel hull
That can ride the waves;
I can even make a boxy flower-pot stand.
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