Forged by Light, Tempered by Shadow: The Poetry of Becoming - Softcover

III, Faustino Lopez

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798349375859

Publisher: Penguin Book Writer, 2025

Synopsis

Forged by Light, Tempered by Shadow

You were not made to be perfect. You were made to become.

In Forged by Light, Tempered by Shadow, poet Faustino Lopez III delivers a stirring collection of verses that embrace the sacred tension between suffering and transformation. These poems are not afraid of pain-they walk through it with open eyes, tracing the soul's journey through grief, self-discovery, and healing.

With lyrical clarity and emotional depth, Lopez explores resilience, mortality, cosmic awe, and the quiet strength found in endurance. Each poem reflects the fire and shadow of lived experience-illuminating how loss can carve space for meaning, and how darkness can be a forge for light.

For the seekers, the dreamers, and the ones who carry silent battles-this book is a mirror, a companion, and a call to rise.

This is for the restless soul.

This is the art of becoming.

This is Forged by Light, Tempered by Shadow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Book Writer
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798349375859
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48