{"id":1024,"date":"2012-11-01T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2014-11-01T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:44:13","slug":"maud-gonne-yeats-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/maud-gonne-yeats-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maud Gonne - Yeats Muse\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DI7Si0cJVOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The second verse refers to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lady-of-the-sweetest-smile\/\" title=\"Lady of the Sweetest Smile\">Lady of the Sweetest Smile<\/a>, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, her spirit and ambition was Gonne-esque&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And she again a poet inspires<br \/>\nWords on paper white to write<br \/>\nFor she was one of beauty and passion<br \/>\nAnd spirit and will with which to fight<br \/>\nAnd he a poet desired peace<br \/>\nThough military formations he admired<br \/>\nAnd anthems for them in time he wrote<br \/>\nAs he by them and by her was inspired&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every poet has his Maud Gonne<br \/>\nWho leaves her mark upon his life<br \/>\nOften without her knowing it<br \/>\nAnd becomes anothers wife<br \/>\nAnd he through life he makes his way<br \/>\nEach ladys smile: of her him it does remind<br \/>\nFor she has a place within his heart<br \/>\nThat only the special find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, her spirit and ambition was Gonne-esque&#8230; And she again a poet inspires Words on paper white to write For she was one of beauty and passion And spirit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1179,1175,15,6],"tags":[776,1076,1183,2371,18,1180,1181],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affairs-of-the-heart-video-poetry","category-kurdistan","category-sweetest-smile-videopoems","category-video-poetry","tag-amazon","tag-film-poem","tag-kobane","tag-kurdistan","tag-love-poem","tag-maud-gonne","tag-women-fighters","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-gw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1022,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-maud-gonne-of-the-kurds\/","url_meta":{"origin":1024,"position":0},"title":"A Maud Gonne of the Kurds","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bmfUBJn7F8g As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! 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