{"id":128009,"date":"2023-09-02T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128009"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:54:21","slug":"hour-2-poems-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-2-poems-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 – Poems & Anger\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tell a friend that a good poem<\/span><\/p>\n

makes anger rumble\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

through the soft of my belly<\/span><\/p>\n

and she laughs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asks why such beauty<\/span><\/p>\n

warrants that response.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When bed and body\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

were smaller,<\/span><\/p>\n

my home\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

was always filled of sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cacophony had only two causes<\/span><\/p>\n

laughter or anger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m uncertain<\/span><\/p>\n

a rabbit blinking\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

unsure when to bound away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not think me angry<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

when perhaps it is only madness.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Laughter and anger,<\/span><\/p>\n

a split hair<\/span><\/p>\n

regurgitated up the throat<\/span><\/p>\n

a string with opposing symphonies<\/span><\/p>\n

uncertainty of which notes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

will play when struck.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And suddenly I am Alice<\/span><\/p>\n

following a rabbit who is also me<\/span><\/p>\n

as it runs rather than be perceived.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not confident enough\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in my own thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n

to trust you\u2019ll hear them<\/span><\/p>\n

gently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But is it not these emotions<\/span><\/p>\n

that opened my doorway,<\/span><\/p>\n

that I heard through a crack<\/span><\/p>\n

sneaking to hear what the family\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

coughed from their lungs.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I am\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

laughing<\/span> cackling<\/span> howling<\/span><\/p>\n

but the caterpillar\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

hands me a poem<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing funny<\/span><\/p>\n

about the thought<\/span><\/p>\n

that those hands\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that mind<\/span><\/p>\n

crafted something so complete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Is it not these emotions<\/span><\/p>\n

that taught me expression<\/span><\/p>\n

could be beautiful?<\/span><\/p>\n

That shattered my chest<\/span><\/p>\n

to scoop the years\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of composting feelings<\/span><\/p>\n

from between my intestines.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So when the poem does not warrant laughter<\/span><\/p>\n

yet loudness is called for<\/span><\/p>\n

can you blame me for the raging in my eyes?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tell a friend that a good poem makes anger rumble\u00a0 through the soft of my belly and she laughs. Asks why such beauty warrants that response.\u00a0   When bed and body\u00a0 were smaller, my home\u00a0 was always filled of sound. Cacophony had only two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128482,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128009\/revisions\/128482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}