A Poet's Sword

I'm a pretty big fan of jidaigeki.  Which is codeword for I like Akira Kurosawa films.  I like Hideo Gosha and Sword of Doom too. 

Interestingly, this is a poem about a Japanese samurai proverb (I guess?) that isn't in haiku.  Which would have been an appropriate choice.

Pen & Sword
In Accord
The stained poems of warlords
Sowing profound dischord
Beautiful Words
Atrocious Death
A poet's sword?

Will you quiver knowing your death will be recounted in meter?
A trophy of history's leaders?
Shamed for sub-par swordplay
Casualty to literary mainstay
Knowing this, will your blade delay?
Or accelerate?
For salvation