{"id":91377,"date":"2021-06-26T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91377"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:28:46","slug":"the-corvus-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-corvus-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corvus Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">The Serpents head and its tail<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Beginning and end we often find<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Like the Sun whose found to never fail<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Following a course to which its confined<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Perched upon the serpents tail<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Finding a crow and with its beak<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Is found to peck its belly\u2014not a scale<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">The inward parts that do speak<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Found with many heads that seem to vary<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Growing more when one is removed<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Like an established end\u2014 you do yet carry<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Routes borrowed but an end\u2014 unmoved<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">For whether you are on sea or shore<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Eternal serpent devouring the end<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">Understanding this Corvus Metaphor<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"bumpedfont15\">And the prophecy it\u2019s said to lend<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Serpents head and its tail\u00a0 Beginning and end we often find\u00a0 Like the Sun whose found to never fail\u00a0 Following a course to which its confined &nbsp; Perched upon the serpents tail\u00a0 Finding a crow and with its beak\u00a0 Is found to peck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[4101,4326,4325,4324,15,10],"class_list":["post-91377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-astronomers","tag-crovus","tag-hour52021","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91377","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\/1566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91414,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91377\/revisions\/91414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}