{"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":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;as easily as an old woman reads a palm&#8221; Crossing the Atlantic &#8211; Anne Sexton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Journey set upon with an illusion of a boat<br \/>\nBy one who could not swim, but read a tale<br \/>\nOf a man who walked on water in Gallilee<br \/>\nAnd thought she too could not fail<br \/>\nSo to walk on the waters of her emotions<br \/>\nBut it was not to be, faster than she could think<br \/>\nWith a glass of vodka in hand, she took on the waves<br \/>\nAnd found the only way was down&#8230; she did sink.<br \/>\nThe old woman of her writings if she were to read<br \/>\nWould she have seen that garage in her palm<br \/>\nWould she have foretold her, or told a fairy tale<br \/>\nHer worries and her agitation to calm?<br \/>\nEach person &#8211; each of us has a destiny<br \/>\nHers charted as if her words were each a medical note<br \/>\nHow many were written with watered eyes<br \/>\nRead to hear their sound, each caught in her throat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;as easily as an old woman reads a palm&#8221; Crossing the Atlantic &#8211; 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 &#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":[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_featured_media_url":"","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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