{"id":91896,"date":"2021-06-26T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91896"},"modified":"2021-06-27T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:55:42","slug":"poem-6-a-tribute-to-sylvia-plath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-6-a-tribute-to-sylvia-plath\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 6: A Tribute to Sylvia Plath “Picking”"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

Blueberries like the sea<\/p>\n

enough to drown my sorrows<\/p>\n

But where is a path<\/p>\n

for my inspired feet to borrow<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

My basket<\/p>\n

not large enough for this swallowing ocean<\/p>\n

As I bend to gather<\/p>\n

in a blue-flesh commotion<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My fingers bloodied<\/p>\n

asking to be dipped in wine<\/p>\n

As I count to infinity<\/p>\n

Picking berries divine<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There is smoke in the distance<\/p>\n

and the cry of gulls<\/p>\n

Protesting my invasion<\/p>\n

of uncertain culls<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Am I here to conquer<\/p>\n

my doubts and fears<\/p>\n

Hoping that someone will hear<\/p>\n

my unconquered cheers<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I see green and blue<\/p>\n

the glorious pungency released<\/p>\n

and then grab a cluster of flies<\/p>\n

Drunk on the sensuous feast<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I find an oasis<\/p>\n

a clearing of rock and determined moss<\/p>\n

and sit, looking at where my sorrows<\/p>\n

Have drowned like pitied dross<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But I am still here<\/p>\n

Useless in my escape<\/p>\n

Unable to return to the basket\u2019s home<\/p>\n

where thatched dreams are destroyed by rape<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Blueberries like the sea enough to drown my sorrows But where is a path for my inspired feet to borrow \u00a0 My basket not large enough for this swallowing ocean As I bend to gather in a blue-flesh commotion   My fingers bloodied asking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91896","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103483,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91896\/revisions\/103483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}