{"id":2110,"date":"2008-02-08T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:24","slug":"poetry-friday-night-sleep-death-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Night, Sleep, Death &#038; Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/R6x1w3nKAhI\/AAAAAAAAAeU\/WAxFcuKAOgc\/s1600-h\/Whitman_ClearMidnight.png\" target=_blank title=\"Whitman Poem\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Whitman_ClearMidnight.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>A Clear Midnight<\/i>, by Walt Whitman <br \/>This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,<br \/>Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;done,<br \/>Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;themes thou lovest best,<br \/>Night, sleep, death and the stars.<\/p>\n<p>A rather spare poem for Whitman, but one beautiful in its simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>A chilly, gloomy start to the Lunar New Year, I&#8217;m hoping everyone doing lion dances and all are wearing silk thermals beneath their costumes! The ceremonies here in Glasgow are all safely INDOORS. Brrr. More heart-warming if not body-warming poetry can be found with <a href=\"http:\/\/ginasblogging.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/poetry-friday-hosting.html\" target= _blank>my bud Gina at AmoXcalli<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Clear Midnight, by Walt Whitman This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,10],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry-friday","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}