{"id":318,"date":"2011-01-21T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-01-21T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:09:59","slug":"friday-poetry-analogy-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Analogy Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Analogy Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am awash, out to sea<br \/>\nIn an ocean of analogy<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a dark forest, filled with words<br \/>\nThe concept, it seems, is quite absurd<\/p>\n<p>But here I sit, afloat in my raft<br \/>\nWhile deep inside, I feel quite daft<br \/>\nWords are my weapons, my armor, my shield<br \/>\nYet at times like this, I want to just yield<\/p>\n<p>Say the wrong thing, the boat will capsize<br \/>\nWrite the wrong phrase, my heart and soul cries<br \/>\nYet still I am compelled; I must further my skill<br \/>\nSail through this storm, foot my own bill<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s light in the distance, a light of hope<br \/>\nI can see it out there, with my poetic scope<br \/>\nIt guides me on, past murky waters so deep<br \/>\nMy words burst alive, and from my heart they leap<\/p>\n<p>So I give to you my gift, this little analogous verse<br \/>\nI hope you like it, for it truly could be worse<br \/>\nMy voyage here is finished, it&#8217;s time I must go<br \/>\nUntil the time I turn the tap, and words like water will flow<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a poem about poetry.\u00a0 Or something like that.\u00a0 Have a marvelous weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analogy Sea I am awash, out to sea In an ocean of analogy It&#8217;s a dark forest, filled with words The concept, it seems, is quite absurd But here I sit, afloat in my raft While deep inside, I feel quite daft Words are my weapons, my armor, my shield Yet at times like this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}