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Click hereThe lathe stands before you solid, restless,
Holding half the power of a plow-horse
The log offers itself to you, accepts the bite
Of the honed steel in your hand, held steady
Against the rest. You bend towards your goal.
Turning wood is craft, you’ll find— not art; (although
You’ll feel the spinning wood pull and catch
Your soul in ways you never dreamed.) You match
A shape that you’ve designed already
(It helps to keep your benchmark well in sight).
You know when you’re finished (unlike, of course
This damned poem that I tinker with, endless).
With the soul of a Poetess !! Salaamat raho ! ( thats Salutations to thee , in Urdu / Farsi , the language of Rumi ; there is more to literature than Shakespeare , y'know e.g. Tolstoy , Pablo Neruda , Rabindranath Tagore )
Shakespeare's odes are in sonnet form;
Most sonnets are not Shakespeare's,
Not all sonnets are odes.