{"id":2204,"date":"2007-12-07T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:02","slug":"poetry-friday-words-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Words For Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/R1lvVsetflI\/AAAAAAAAAZs\/F5l0iBvo7G0\/s1600-h\/hawkriver3.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"River Hawk\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" align=right hspace=10 src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hawkriver3.jpg\" \/><\/a><b>&#8220;The Mind is a Hawk,&#8221;<\/b> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.english.ttu.edu\/mcdonald\/\" target= _blank>Walter McDonald<\/a>, from Night Landing \u00a9 Harper and Row.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Mind is a Hawk<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The mind is like a hawk, trying to survive<br \/>on hardscrabble. Hunting, you wheel<br \/>sometimes for hours on thermals<\/p>\n<p>rising from sand so dry<br \/>no trees<br \/>grow native. Some days, you circle<br \/>only bones and snakeskin, the same old<\/p>\n<p>cactus and mesquite. The secret<br \/>is not to give up on shadows, but glide<br \/>until nothing expects it, staring<\/p>\n<p>to make a desert give up dead-still<br \/>ideas like rabbits with round eyes<br \/>and rapidly beating hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Care to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.english.ttu.edu\/mcdonald\/samples.html\" target= _blank>read a few more samples<\/a> of this poet&#8217;s brilliant work? Find more poets for everyone at <a href=\"http:\/\/blbooks.blogspot.com\/\" target= _blank>Becky&#8217;s Book Reviews<\/a> today. Happy Poetry Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Mind is a Hawk,&#8221; by Walter McDonald, from Night Landing \u00a9 Harper and Row. The Mind is a Hawk The mind is like&#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-2204","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\/2204","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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}