{"id":521,"date":"2013-06-30T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=521"},"modified":"2013-06-30T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:42:59","slug":"24042012-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"24\/04\/2012 &#8211; Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspalita warns of clich\u00e9, teaches definition.<br \/>\nI<br \/>\nwant to write of death and birth<br \/>\nand things of earth and<br \/>\nsky<br \/>\nand feelings I search deep<br \/>\nto find that hide from light<br \/>\nand sight.<br \/>\nIs it new and true  and worthy<br \/>\nto be called a poem<br \/>\nfree from clich\u00e9?<\/p>\n<p>Can I say something new?<br \/>\nIt is merely my view<br \/>\nof eternal experience for who<br \/>\ncan stand in my shoes but me?<br \/>\nNot you.<\/p>\n<p>Poet<br \/>\nI am not.<\/p>\n<p>Josephine and Roslyn<\/p>\n<p>A death and a birth.<br \/>\ntransport me back<br \/>\n34 years.<br \/>\nWhen my arms did hold you<br \/>\nAlice.<br \/>\nSafely, finally, returned to me<br \/>\nfrom icu.<br \/>\nAnd my father,<br \/>\nfinally able to let go of life<br \/>\nnow surely knowing<br \/>\nthat his only daughter\u2019s<br \/>\nonly daughter<br \/>\narrived<br \/>\nand lived.<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn\u2019t say \u2018goodbye\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is new<br \/>\nfor me<br \/>\nThis memory.<br \/>\nUnique<br \/>\nAnd mine alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspalita warns of clich\u00e9, teaches definition. I want to write of death and birth and things of earth and sky and feelings I search deep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,28],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","tag-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}