{"id":5022,"date":"2021-08-11T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2021-08-11T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:41:14","slug":"before-the-very-first-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/before-the-very-first-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Very First Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a time before poetry was written or read,
\nBefore a song was sung, or a tale said,
\nThey lived in a garden, green, fertile and fair,
\nThe free-est the fairest, the only ones there,
\nBut one order, one order, they could not obey,
\nSo they seek comfort to this very day,
\nIn storys, wild stoys, and songs to sing,
\nOf loss or of love, for their loss they are longing,
\nSeeking the place they lost, seeking where they called home,
\nBefore was written, read or recited, the very first poem…<\/p>\n

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The Garden of Eden; in the background The Temptation (oil on oak panel) by Jan the Elder Brueghel (1568-1625)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a time before poetry was written or read, Before a song was sung, or a tale said, They lived in a garden, green, fertile and fair, The free-est the fairest, the only ones there, But one order, one order, they could not obey, So they seek comfort to this …<\/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":[3582],"tags":[830,1830,831,3312],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-creation","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-genesis","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1j0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4123,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-apple-of-eden\/","url_meta":{"origin":5022,"position":0},"title":"The Apple Of Eden","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"4th November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Fruit of a tree that begot sin And led poor Adam astray, When misled by a lusty Eve In Edens garden one day. 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She walks the paths of the briars and the shadows Where rocks to trip exist and mud to slip Path of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Love Poems"","block_context":{"text":"Love Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/love-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Hers are not the paths sound underfoot... but of the moor, the bog, with all the hazards of walking life... Photo: Bog at Edenmore, Ballinamuck, Co. 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