{"id":2903,"date":"2013-09-04T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2013-09-04T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:36:04","slug":"you-waken-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"You waken the poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a title=\"ouroboros\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ouroboros.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2904\" alt=\"ouroboros\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ouroboros.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">You waken the poet<br \/><br \/><\/strong><br \/>You waken the poet in me,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">and trepidation seizes me<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">for, if I were to follow him<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I'd surely scorch my wings<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">from flying to close to the sun.<\/span><br \/> <br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Poetry is only a prose<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">deserving of a unique form<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">for, if this were but an essay<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">who is there that could hear<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">these accents of eternity?<\/span><br \/> <br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The rhyme means but little<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the rhythm is the center thing<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">for, if it were not for a time<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">ev'ry measure in place<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">how would the essential appear?<\/span><br \/> <br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">So it is in living<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the yin and the yang of it all<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">for, if not for give and receive<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">how to see dark from light<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">and know our birth from our death?<\/span><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Garnet Shaw Robbie<\/blockquote> <\/span><\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}