{"id":288,"date":"2022-11-09T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=288"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:52:02","slug":"an-unpublished-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/an-unpublished-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unpublished Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are about a dozen poems quoted in The Dark Trilogy<\/a><\/em> that are not published in Mostly Welsh<\/a><\/em>. Here is one of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

The Interface <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books make visible the writer’s soul
Which bleeds its angst by pen: \u00a0
Spread thin across life’s whited bowl \u00a0
A thin red stain of madeleine <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books may offer us an author’s eye
That ensnares the reader within its brail
Or should writers light the reader’s sky
And tear apart the shadowy veil? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books will hold the writer’s thought
And bridge the gap twixt pen and readers
A mystic link so carefully wrought
To blazon unicorns among the cedars <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer’s flame burns bright with drama
As ashes from a tortured mind combust
For in the writing there must be karma:
Finding peace in a little heap of livid dust<\/p>\nWith thanks to Proust, Baudelaire, Auden and di Lampedusa<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are about a dozen poems quoted in The Dark Trilogy that are not published in Mostly Welsh. Here is one of them! The Interface Books make visible the writer’s soul Which bleeds its angst by pen: \u00a0Spread thin across life’s whited bowl \u00a0A thin red stain of madeleine Books may offer us an author’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,19,32,18,14],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-austin-macauley","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-mostly-welsh","tag-poem","tag-the-dark-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}