{"id":2215,"date":"2008-01-09T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T17:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2008-01-09T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T17:08:33","slug":"the-good-poems-are-created-by-the-great-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"The good poems are created by the great poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Seamus Heaney &#8211; one of my favs:<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 13pt; line-height: 18pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">VALEDICTION<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Lady with the frilled blouse<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">And simple tartan skirt, <o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Since you left the house <o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Its emptiness has hurt\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">All thought. In your presence\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Time rode easy, anchored\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">On a smile; but absence\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Rocked love&#8217;s balance, unmoored\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">The days. They buck and bound\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Across the calendar,\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Pitched from the quiet sound <o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Of your flower-tender\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Voice. Need breaks on my strand;\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">You&#8217;ve gone, I am at sea.\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Until you resume command,\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333\">Self is in mutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment-->\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Seamus Heaney &#8211; one of my favs: VALEDICTION Lady with the frilled blouse And simple tartan skirt, Since you left the house Its emptiness has hurt\u00a0 All thought. In your presence\u00a0 Time rode easy, anchored\u00a0 On a smile; but absence\u00a0 Rocked love&#8217;s balance, unmoored\u00a0 The days. They buck and bound\u00a0 Across the calendar,\u00a0 Pitched from the quiet sound Of your flower-tender\u00a0 Voice. Need breaks on my strand;\u00a0 You&#8217;ve gone, I am at sea.\u00a0 Until&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-zJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}