{"id":293,"date":"2009-02-03T12:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-02-03T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:54:28","slug":"poem-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/poem-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3065\/3251551288_1e1840d984_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3065\/3251551288_1e1840d984_o.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3065\/3251551288_1e1840d984_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Her Longing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Before this longing,<br \/>\n I lived serene as a fish,<br \/>\n At one with the plants in the pond,<br \/>\n \u00a0The mare&#8217;s tail, the floating frogbit,<br \/>\n Among my eight-legged friends,<br \/>\n Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip,<br \/>\n Like a leech, looping myself along,<br \/>\n A bug-eyed edible one,<br \/>\n A mouth like a stickleback, &#8212;<br \/>\n A thing quiescent!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But now &#8212;<br \/>\n The wild stream, the sea itself cannot contain me:<br \/>\n I dive with the black hag, the cormorant,<br \/>\n Or walk the pebbly shore with the humpbacked heron,<br \/>\n Shaking out my catch in the morning sunlight,<br \/>\n Or rise with the gar-eagle, the great-winged condor,<br \/>\n Floating over the mountains,<br \/>\n Pitting my breast against the rushing air,<br \/>\n A phoenix, sure of my body,<br \/>\n Perpetually rising out of myself,<br \/>\n My wings hovering over the shorebirds,<br \/>\n Or beating against the black clouds of storm,<br \/>\n Protecting the sea-cliffs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8212; Theodore Roethke<br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">From\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>News of the Universe,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n edited by Robert Bly<br \/>\n (Sierra Club Books)<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Her Longing Before this longing, I lived serene as a fish, At one with the plants in the pond, \u00a0The mare&#8217;s tail, the floating frogbit, Among my eight-legged friends, Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip, Like a leech, looping myself along, A bug-eyed edible one, A mouth like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-of-the-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}