{"id":398,"date":"2014-02-12T10:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:22:26","slug":"four-letters-long-the-biggest-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/four-letters-long-the-biggest-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Letters Long: The Biggest Words"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Love was biggest word, the hardest to write”
\n– Seamus Heaney<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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The biggest words, four letters long: not in what they are:<\/span>
But rather what they represent that we must face:<\/span>
The emotion to adore another, we though writers cannot write:<\/span>
And though we know we are writers, we cannot take the title: poet.<\/span>
Another language for Heaney sufficed: our native tongue<\/span>
Registering his children in their new Wicklow school<\/span>
The schoolmaster knew best: the father between jobs<\/span>
Who would not call himself poet in English, found the tongue<\/span>
Of our forefathers used to call him such, and was content<\/span>
To state without speaking loud: to say with minds voice:<\/span>
That will do… the pen marked on the page<\/span>
“File” – a poet by any other name being as good.<\/span>

In time, and it took time, the poems flowed<\/span>
Love in its time, lines caressed, was addressed,<\/span>
But it took its time in coming: what a harvest<\/span>
Seeds sown, germinated, fruit picked, seeds sown again…<\/span>
Four more letters, so hard to write initially<\/span>
So hard for men to say what they do and are<\/span>
Though the subject of each – who they love and that they writing are a poet<\/span>
Is the essence of as humans, what they are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Love was biggest word, the hardest to write” – Seamus Heaney The biggest words, four letters long: not in what they are:But rather what they represent that we must face:The emotion to adore another, we though writers cannot write:And though we know we are writers, we cannot take the title: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[621],"tags":[362,148,67,622],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations-from-quotations","tag-love","tag-poems-on-love","tag-quotes","tag-seamus-heaney-quotes","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-6q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3785,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/we-are-no-weavers-who-write-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":398,"position":0},"title":"We Are No Weavers Who Write Today","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th July 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"We are no weavers who write today Yet still we write in their way And similar is the things we say In our small rhymes And with words and language play As we write of our times. 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