{"id":89279,"date":"2021-06-26T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89279"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:53:30","slug":"forgotten-hour-two-a-nonet-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/forgotten-hour-two-a-nonet-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten (Hour Two, A Nonet Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89790\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/forgotten-memory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant mind is a terrible<\/p>\n<p>sight as it slowly fades away.<\/p>\n<p>This man who once knew it all,<\/p>\n<p>who taught me ev&#8217;rything<\/p>\n<p>about love and life,<\/p>\n<p>can no longer<\/p>\n<p>remember<\/p>\n<p>his name&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>DAD.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A nonet is composed of nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the next eight, and so on. The final line consists of a single syllable. This gives the overall appearance that the poem is disappearing as it progresses. This one is very close to my heart, and while I started writing it with my late Uncle David in mind, it became a lot closer to home than I intended, as my father has been struggling with memory loss issues the past year or so as well.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A brilliant mind is a terrible sight as it slowly fades away. This man who once knew it all, who taught me ev&#8217;rything about love and life, can no longer remember his name&#8230; DAD. &nbsp; (A nonet is composed of nine lines. The first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89279","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89974,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89279\/revisions\/89974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}