{"id":89679,"date":"2021-06-26T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89679"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:16:16","slug":"poem-for-hour-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-for-hour-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Hour Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong>A Mesostic \u2013 For and Not For My Dog Tugboat<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\u201cThese cracked elbows, the only sign of time passing\u201d<\/em>\r\n   \u2014Canisia Lubrin from The Dzgraphxst, page 41\r\n\r\n              Cracked elbows, the only sign of <strong>T<\/strong>ime\r\n                          passing Canisa says b<strong>U<\/strong>t\r\n                                      not true <strong>G<\/strong>od said\r\n          to me just now sounding puzzled, the <strong>B<\/strong>ig bang and its\r\n                          aftermath, all that n<strong>O<\/strong>thing turned into somethings,\r\n              for darn near fourteen billion ye<strong>A<\/strong>rs that\u2019s\r\n                        big, very big, sign of <strong>T<\/strong>ime passing he told me.\r\n\r\n                     What more of <strong>T<\/strong>ime do I need\r\n               or want to know abo<strong>U<\/strong>t with death        \r\n                    always this Tu<strong>G<\/strong>\r\n\r\n                              at my ankles, this <strong>B<\/strong>ounded true\r\n                                                n<strong>O<\/strong>rth, all of us heading\r\n                                         in the s<strong>A<\/strong>me direction\r\n                                                 <strong>T<\/strong>ime or no time.\r\n\r\n                                      To pass the <strong>T<\/strong>ime, mark\r\n                              time, waste time, pl<strong>U<\/strong>g\r\n                    the holes in the boat of time <strong>G<\/strong>oing down\r\n                                   anyway, so why <strong>B<\/strong>other giving\r\n                      time or cracked elbows a sec<strong>O<\/strong>nd thought. Why not\r\n                imagine a dog, any dog, but especi<strong>A<\/strong>lly my dog, Tugboat\r\n                                   bounding along <strong>T<\/strong>oday untugged, unleashed \r\n                                                        to time.<\/pre>\n<p>*The mesostic form like the acrostic form takes a word and spells it vertically down the page but unlike the acrostic places it to create varied left and right margins.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Osler<br \/>\nPoem for Hour Two<br \/>\nPoetry Half Marathon<br \/>\nJune 26th, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mesostic \u2013 For and Not For My Dog Tugboat \u201cThese cracked elbows, the only sign of time passing\u201d \u2014Canisia Lubrin from The Dzgraphxst, page 41 Cracked elbows, the only sign of Time passing Canisa says bUt not true God said to me just now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[710],"class_list":["post-89679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679","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\/1064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89679"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92893,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679\/revisions\/92893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}