{"id":2542,"date":"2016-02-05T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2016-02-06T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T13:18:12","slug":"fishermens-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/fishermens-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermens Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Writing<\/p>\n

Castiglione’s advise on this, well known to Yeats, was literally taken to heart. The courtier must create an image of the beloved in his “his imagination as an abstraction distinct from any material form, and thus … enjoy it there always … without fear of ever losing it.” (Source >>><\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is it about poets
\nAs we call ourselves
\nWho write of love we never got
\nAs we never tried
\nOr tried where we knew there was no hope
\nAgainst reason
\nBy compulsion?<\/p>\n

We write of the beloved
\nWho did not want to know
\nAbout love
\nOr our type of love anyway.<\/p>\n

We tell in verse to others
\nOf the one who got away
\nWho was never on the hook
\nOr nibbled it
\nAs haughtily she swam by
\nToo clearly in the murky water seeing
\nThe fisherman above with his awkward grin
\nHe is no hunter
\nHe is no fisherman
\nWho captures more on paper than in the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Castiglione’s advise on this, well known to Yeats, was literally taken to heart. The courtier must create an image of the beloved in his “his imagination as an abstraction distinct from any material form, and thus … enjoy it there always … without fear of ever losing it.” (Source >>>) …<\/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":[145,120],"tags":[2679,362,292,51,17,2678,2677],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poems","category-non-rhyming-poems","tag-desired","tag-love","tag-love-poetry","tag-poets","tag-unrequited-love","tag-why-poets-write","tag-yeats","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-F0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5164,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/how-a-poet-can-avoid-divorce\/","url_meta":{"origin":2542,"position":0},"title":"How a Poet Can Avoid Divorce","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th January 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The lady deep in her slumbers Was woken by her dear Whose reasons for wakind his beloved was not as romantic as first did appear It was not for cuddles or a tumble He had shook his wife awoke Who looked on in sleepy anger Listening baffled at the word's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Funny Poems"","block_context":{"text":"Funny Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/funny-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Poetry-Reading-Causes-Divorce.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Poetry-Reading-Causes-Divorce.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Poetry-Reading-Causes-Divorce.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1750,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/it-is-all-for-little-that-we-poets-write\/","url_meta":{"origin":2542,"position":1},"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":1133,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/poets-express-a-bar-and-bawdy-bards-outside-bantry\/","url_meta":{"origin":2542,"position":2},"title":"Poets Express: A Bar, and Bawdy Bards, Outside Bantry!","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd July 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As expected, Poets Express was a success, but with a different crowd than anticipated. 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