{"id":11601,"date":"2010-11-05T01:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:45:48","slug":"poetry-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/11\/poetry-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"poetry arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(My dad recently got me onto Pablo Neruda, his all-time favourite poet. I love the way Pablo describes how&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>poetry arrived<!--more--><\/strong><em>~ pablo neruda<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And it was at that age&#8230;Poetry arrived <br \/>\n in search of me. I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know where <br \/>\n it came from, from winter or a river. <br \/>\n I don&#8217;t know how or when, <br \/>\n no, they were not voices, they were not <br \/>\n words, nor silence, <br \/>\n but from a street I was summoned, <br \/>\n from the branches of night, <br \/>\n abruptly from the others, <br \/>\n among violent fires <br \/>\n or returning alone, <br \/>\n there I was without a face <br \/>\n and it touched me. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did not know what to say, my mouth <br \/>\n had no way <br \/>\n with names <br \/>\n my eyes were blind, <br \/>\n and something started in my soul, <br \/>\n fever or forgotten wings, <br \/>\n and I made my own way, <br \/>\n deciphering <br \/>\n that fire <br \/>\n and I wrote the first faint line, <br \/>\n faint, without substance, pure <br \/>\n nonsense, <br \/>\n pure wisdom <br \/>\n of someone who knows nothing, <br \/>\n and suddenly I saw <br \/>\n the heavens <br \/>\n unfastened <br \/>\n and open, <br \/>\n planets, <br \/>\n palpitating plantations, <br \/>\n shadow perforated, <br \/>\n riddled <br \/>\n with arrows, fire and flowers, <br \/>\n the winding night, the universe.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I, infinitesimal being, <br \/>\n drunk with the great starry <br \/>\n void, <br \/>\n likeness, image of <br \/>\n mystery, <br \/>\n I felt myself a pure part <br \/>\n of the abyss, <br \/>\n I wheeled with the stars, <br \/>\n my heart broke free on the open sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(My dad recently got me onto Pablo Neruda, his all-time favourite poet. I love the way Pablo describes how&#8230;) poetry arrived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}