{"id":56205,"date":"2019-06-23T03:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56205"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:56:58","slug":"our-lonely-betters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/our-lonely-betters\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lonely Betters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(In response to W.H. Auden&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeckoning.com\/poetry\/auden\/auden4.html\">Their Lonely Betters<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words are for those with promises to keep.<br \/>\nOur forte of language causes us to weep<br \/>\nWe create worlds and homes built from letters<br \/>\nBetween us and the wild, our lonely betters.<\/p>\n<p>We are the only who can grasp the fragile time<br \/>\nWe can find love through an internal rhyme<br \/>\nAnd make art from the romanticization of dying<br \/>\nIf we said we would trade this for silence we\u2019d be lying.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I see the flowers who are naturally mated<br \/>\nNo fuss and words and neither have waited.<br \/>\nOnly if the bees who spread the pollen knew<br \/>\nWhat troubles from the search of love can put you through.<\/p>\n<p>I envy the natural serenade of the birds<br \/>\nThey give us songs that need not words<br \/>\nA whim of their own, it\u2019s how they are made<br \/>\nWe\u2019re missing the message in our lonely shade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In response to W.H. Auden&#8217;s Their Lonely Betters) Words are for those with promises to keep. Our forte of language causes us to weep We create worlds and homes built from letters Between us and the wild, our lonely betters. We are the only who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56205","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58292,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56205\/revisions\/58292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}