{"id":573,"date":"2005-04-04T09:28:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T09:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=573"},"modified":"2005-04-04T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T09:28:21","slug":"national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is, that is.<\/p>\n<p>So, here are a couple of my all-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>Overnight, very<br \/>\nWhitely, discreetly,<br \/>\nVery quietly <\/p>\n<p>Our toes, our noses<br \/>\nTake hold on the loam,<br \/>\nAcquire the air. <\/p>\n<p>Nobody sees us,<br \/>\nStops us, betrays us;<br \/>\nThe small grains make room. <\/p>\n<p>Soft fists insist on<br \/>\nHeaving the needles,<br \/>\nThe leafy bedding, <\/p>\n<p>Even the paving.<br \/>\nOur hammers, our rams,<br \/>\nEarless and eyeless, <\/p>\n<p>Perfectly voiceless,<br \/>\nWiden the crannies,<br \/>\nShoulder through holes. We <\/p>\n<p>Diet on water,<br \/>\nOn crumbs of shadow,<br \/>\nBland-mannered, asking <\/p>\n<p>Little or nothing.<br \/>\nSo many of us!<br \/>\nSo many of us! <\/p>\n<p>We are shelves, we are<br \/>\nTables, we are meek,<br \/>\nWe are edible, <\/p>\n<p>Nudgers and shovers<br \/>\nIn spite of ourselves.<br \/>\nOur kind multiplies: <\/p>\n<p>We shall by morning<br \/>\nInherit the earth.<br \/>\nOur foot's in the door.<br \/>\n-- Mushrooms - Sylvia Plath<\/ul>\n<p>...and...<\/p>\n<ul>so much depends<br \/>\nupon<\/p>\n<p>a red wheel<br \/>\nbarrow<\/p>\n<p>glazed with rain<br \/>\nwater<\/p>\n<p>beside the white<br \/>\nchickens.<\/p>\n<p>-- William Carlos Williams<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is, that is. So, here are a couple of my all-time favorites: Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding, Even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}