{"id":2107,"date":"2015-07-28T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2015-07-28T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:35:48","slug":"a-poets-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-poets-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poets Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an old verse of mine, found on a previous draft of the website. Poetry has got me free into a lot of festivals, and a few quid towards spending too and expenses, but so far, little to put into the bank!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no money in this art
\nAnd though I knew it from the start
\nI refused to leave my craft
\nOf which the pen and paper are my medium and tools.
\nFor money not do I write
\nAnd for money not I might
\nFor only idiots would provide the sight
\nOf trying to earn a living by being such fools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an old verse of mine, found on a previous draft of the website. Poetry has got me free into a lot of festivals, and a few quid towards spending too and expenses, but so far, little to put into the bank! There is no money in this art …<\/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":[3],"tags":[2279,814,1901,657],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-lament","tag-poem-on-writing","tag-poet","tag-writing-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-xZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1750,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/it-is-all-for-little-that-we-poets-write\/","url_meta":{"origin":2107,"position":0},"title":"It is All For Little That We Poets Write","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A poet writes his words that will Be read by someone who does not care And thinks it odd these rhyming lines That his flowing pen laid there But he cares not and keeps on writing As surely as the grass will grow And as sure as we pull up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Writers"","block_context":{"text":"Writers","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/writers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Korney Ivanovic Chukovsky - poet - painted by Ilya Repin","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Korney-Ivanovic-Chukovsky-poet-painted-by-Ilya-Repin.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4875,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/death-took-the-poet-while-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":2107,"position":1},"title":"Death Took The Poet While Writing","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"6th December 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Sullivan The Poet\" as Michael Sullivan referred to himself, was a writer I came across online well over a decade ago. 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