{"id":5188,"date":"2013-11-06T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2013-11-17T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:50:37","slug":"2-new-iambic-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/06\/2-new-iambic-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"2 New Iambic Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This first one is in iambic tetrameter with the structure of an English Sonnet:<\/p>\n<p>I lost you to Arabian nights:<br \/>\nThe god Apollo\u2019s basketball.<br \/>\nYou had that day Queen Isis eyes..<br \/>\nUnfolding reddened fall leaves song.<br \/>\nIt does mean something here in snow.<br \/>\nThe M&#038;#257rga flames the Firebird\u2019s beak.<br \/>\nSomehow it made me let you go,<br \/>\nSo silent beings now can speak.<br \/>\nI reach across the earth for you.<br \/>\nAcross the universe I fly.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re under spellbound mountain dew.<br \/>\nAsleep by mirrors&#8217; watchful eye.<br \/>\nThen something shakes the arch\u2019s gate.<br \/>\nThe colors open again Finn&#8217;s wake.<\/p>\n<address><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a92013 Stephen K. Pickering<\/span><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This second one is a straight English Sonnet, having the structure and the 5 iambic feet per line, iambic pentameter:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s thought itself that&#8217;s separating us.<br \/>\nMy little molecules are calling you.<br \/>\nSo Jesus told the mountain, &#8220;Part to dust!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd said let go, that you could do it too.<br \/>\nTransparent eyes that cover Western skies.<br \/>\nI hook the trailer hilt that pulls the sun.<br \/>\nI search for you each night on moonlight drives:<br \/>\nSome feeling in the heart that you&#8217;re the one.<br \/>\nYou pulled me out of the beach&#8217;s seahorse sand.<br \/>\nAnd ponied up the soul for Daphne&#8217;s bed.<br \/>\nWith wildest sleep we wake this magic land<br \/>\nSing witches stirring lives from worlds we&#8217;ve banned.<br \/>\nThe tea room veils the river&#8217;s bride in frost.<br \/>\nAll calling for the princess who&#8217;s been lost.<\/p>\n<address dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a92013 Stephen K. Pickering<\/span><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This first one is in iambic tetrameter with the structure of an English Sonnet: I lost you to Arabian nights: The god Apollo\u2019s basketball. You had that day Queen Isis eyes.. Unfolding reddened fall leaves song. It does mean something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/06\/2-new-iambic-poems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,36],"tags":[70,429,71,433],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-sonnets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}