{"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-F0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1024,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/maud-gonne-yeats-inspiration\/","url_meta":{"origin":2542,"position":0},"title":"Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st November 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DI7Si0cJVOc 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... 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