Hour 7<\/p>\n
9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n
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“A Study Of Self\u2026”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Academia has changed the meanings and syllable count for the forms of Senryu, Haiku, and Tanka.\u00a0 They are still elegant and meaningful \u2026just not quite what would be expected by “purists” of old (nor the new ones).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abuse touches\u2026<\/p>\n leaving moments to echo<\/p>\n a life’s time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lighting candles<\/p>\n in memory of a girl<\/p>\n who laughed.<\/p>\n But not ever AT me\u2026<\/p>\n Just life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There ARE monsters.<\/p>\n Some even survive their touch,<\/p>\n most wish they hadn’t.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n God took everyone<\/p>\n and everything,<\/p>\n except my feet.<\/p>\n And I’ve wandered this world –<\/p>\n one step at a time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guantanamo Bay, Cuba\u2026<\/p>\n Doubly fenced and protected perimeter,<\/p>\n their guards, our guards:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I saw a circus\u2026<\/p>\n but the artists died –<\/p>\n on the barbed wire<\/p>\n separating their prison<\/p>\n from our freedoms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And on and on<\/p>\n it goes:<\/p>\n Life as we live it –<\/p>\n is seldom as we want it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris<\/p>\n (C) Chris Twyford 9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 7 9\/2\/2023 “A Study Of Self\u2026” Academia has changed the meanings and syllable count for the forms of Senryu, Haiku, and Tanka.\u00a0 They are still elegant and meaningful \u2026just not quite what would be expected by “purists” of old (nor the new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5985,5735,10,1084],"class_list":["post-131973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023-hour-7","tag-chris","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131973","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\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145394,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131973\/revisions\/145394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}