{"id":4471,"date":"2019-03-29T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2019-03-29T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:17:35","slug":"pondering-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/pondering-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondering Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"From<\/a>
From an exhibition in Longford<\/a> a few years back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being a bard it can be hard
\nTo say what poetry is
\nBut the readers eyes do not disguise
\nIf he or she thinks its not… or is! <\/p>\n

The readers they are fickle folk
\nWhen they have had you read
\nQuite soon by fans are like friends forgot
\nForsaken for new instead…<\/p>\n

But for those few hours together
\nLike between the sheets are the lovers
\nAttentive embrace, a meeting of two souls
\nOn the pages between the covers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whimsical verse on poetry, and the relationship between poet and reader…<\/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":[4187,4189,3107,4188],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-poems-on-writing","tag-readers","tag-what-is-poetry","tag-whimsical-verse","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1a7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3048,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/on-reading-the-verse-of-hera-linsday-bird\/","url_meta":{"origin":4471,"position":0},"title":"On Reading the Verse of Hera Linsday Bird","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"26th July 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I got no objection to lewdness in poetry, or the odd swear word or a few, but HLB writes to make the reader hot, but she just left me cold. 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