{"id":1795,"date":"2011-11-23T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T09:28:41","slug":"turbulent-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/turbulent-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbulent Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"

“as easily as an old woman reads a palm” Crossing the Atlantic – Anne Sexton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Journey set upon with an illusion of a boat
\nBy one who could not swim, but read a tale
\nOf a man who walked on water in Gallilee
\nAnd thought she too could not fail
\nSo to walk on the waters of her emotions
\nBut it was not to be, faster than she could think
\nWith a glass of vodka in hand, she took on the waves
\nAnd found the only way was down… she did sink.
\nThe old woman of her writings if she were to read
\nWould she have seen that garage in her palm
\nWould she have foretold her, or told a fairy tale
\nHer worries and her agitation to calm?
\nEach person – each of us has a destiny
\nHers charted as if her words were each a medical note
\nHow many were written with watered eyes
\nRead to hear their sound, each caught in her throat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“as easily as an old woman reads a palm” Crossing the Atlantic – Anne Sexton Journey set upon with an illusion of a boat By one who could not swim, but read a tale Of a man who walked on water in Gallilee And thought she too could not fail …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[233,3],"tags":[1949,1154,1952,1950,1951,1953],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers","category-writing","tag-anne-sexton","tag-depression","tag-fortune-telling","tag-madness","tag-solace","tag-swim","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-sX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1792,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/words-written-in-anger-and-anguish-anne-sexton\/","url_meta":{"origin":1795,"position":0},"title":"Words Written in Anger and Anguish (Anne Sexton)","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th November 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As Sexton slowly slid out of control, a feature of her writing was to go to free verse from rhyme. 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