Poetry on video: “little iron man”

I finally have some video readings for poems from my two books (Iron Man Family Outing and Scapegoat’s Cross) loaded on my YouTube channel (rickbeldenpoet) and will be posting them one at a time here on the blog over the next few weeks.

Today’s poem, “little iron man”, is from part one (“life behind this mask”) of Iron Man Family Outing and is the poem that opens the book.

To listen to an audio reading of this poem during my September 2009 interview with Dr. Chris Blazina on his show, The Secret Lives of Men, click here.

The Poetry on video: “little iron man” by Rick Belden, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

February 7th, 2011 in video | tags: adult survivor, inner child, masculine psychology, men's poetry, wounded man

4 Comments Add your own

1. Brigid Briton&hellip | September 3rd, 2011 at 3:25 pm

Rick,

This is heart-breaking and so powerful. You are indeed a super-hero, right here, right now for sharing this with us, the kind of superhero who only needs words to triumph over evil! Keep on keeping on, my friend.
2. Rick&hellip | September 3rd, 2011 at 6:24 pm

Thank you, Brigid. I’m always hoping that the material I share will provide others with some useful reference points into their own experience, and perhaps, a sense that it’s okay to begin to explore and express those thoughts and feelings that they may have tucked away, for good reason, as children. I don’t think of myself as any sort of hero, but anytime something I’ve said or written helps move one person toward greater wholeness, I feel like my work is doing what I want and intend it to do.
3. Jeff & Friends&hellip | January 2nd, 2012 at 1:17 pm

Very meaningful to us, hitting the nail exactly on the mark. We even sat down at the age of thirteen and willingly devoted ourselves to the task; for 15 years the ‘Iron Man’ ruled (he was our interior teenager; an alter and our host for so long.) HE became the iron man – that was his favorite song, by the way, “Iron Man” from Black Sabbath (another fitting tribute in there). We even did a computer graphic of the thing – the death of the Iron Man – or “The Machine” as we called him, or ‘it’, or what have you. In was in an effort to shut our emotions down; becoming a totally logical being. And it ‘worked’ for a while – but it caused us pain – and in the end . . . it was destroying us, so we destroyed the thing. The teenager has (in some fashion) never forgiven us that thing; but on the other hand perhaps he does. For he well remembers the pain and isolation and loneliness – ‘we’ have a letter he wrote us – knowing he was ‘dying’ inside; his Machine was ruined; all he had become . . . lost in the dust and burning desert of our mind.

It was a lonely time. And maybe we should write about it one day. And we did; at least the part about the 3 children who came to save us – pulling us out in the end – when the youngest one, an abused boy, looked in our eyes with love and we beheld him – him loving us and it meant . . .
we could be loved again.
4. Rick&hellip | January 8th, 2012 at 10:46 am

Thanks for reading and commenting, Jeff. I’m glad you found this post meaningful.

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