.
\nNo poemba today,
\nNot even a hint of poembesia,
\nJust a tattered flake or two,
\nOf poemia sifting down,
\nOn my purloined head,
\nLeaves no poesia,
\nOn my sweated brow!<\/p>\n
When I was young,
\nI poemed often,
\nLifted great ores of it,
\nIn my rock bottom boat,
\nAnd laughed all waves away,
\nCheered the thunder and the wind,
\nThrew anchors out,
\nAnd stayed lifetimes,
\nSwimming around the boat,
\nIn search of sharks,
\nTo eat my boiling mind!<\/p>\n
When I became older,
\nPoeming grew like manhole covers,
\nRolled South then North,
\nRolled restlessly,
\nClanging,
\nBanging,
\nNoisey as hell,
\nBad poems all!<\/p>\n
Now the old man rests,
\nBreathes poetry,
\nExhales words of writ,
\nFinds honest labor,
\nIn the craft,
\nFinds wisdom in the life,
\nWhich yet blooms,
\nTo teach me!<\/p>\n
Like fireflies in bright spangles of wood,
\nI trace their passage,
\nIn the darkeries of both forest and time,
\nAnd still I wonder,
\nWhich be mine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
. No poemba today, Not even a hint of poembesia, Just a tattered flake or two, Of poemia sifting down, On my purloined head, Leaves no poesia, On my sweated brow! When I was young, I poemed often, Lifted great ores of it, In my rock bottom boat, And laughed all waves away, Cheered the … Continue reading “No Poemba Today by Michael W. Eliseuson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-spammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}