{"id":19,"date":"2020-08-27T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/a-poem-for-thursday-95\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:31:45","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/a-poem-for-thursday-95\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I have been puttering around for ages trying to pick a poem for today and all the ones that I like are by Mary Oliver. I know I have featured her poems many times before and I try to feature a variety of poets but today that does not seem to matter. Mary Oliver is the only acceptable choice for today.<\/p>\n

I was sad all day, and why not. There I was, books piled<\/i>
\non both sides of the table, paper stacked up, words<\/i>
\nfalling off my tongue.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nThe robins had been a long time singing, and now it<\/i>
\nwas beginning to rain.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nWhat are we sure of? Happiness isn’t a town on a map,<\/i>
\nor an early arrival, or a job well done, but good work<\/i>
\nongoing. Which is not likely to be the trifling around<\/i>
\nwith a poem.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nThen it began raining hard, and the flowers in the yard<\/i>
\nwere full of lively fragrance.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nYou have had days like this, no doubt. And wasn’t it<\/i>
\nwonderful, finally, to leave the room? Ah, what a\u00a0<\/i>
\nmoment!<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nAs for myself, I swung the door open. And there was\u00a0<\/i>
\nthe wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Work, Sometimes<\/i>
\nMary Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by\u00a0Jongsun Lee\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash I have been puttering around for ages trying to pick a poem for today and all the ones that I like are by Mary Oliver. I know I have featured her poems many times before and I try to feature a variety of poets but today that does not seem to matter. Mary Oliver is the only acceptable choice for today. I was sad all day, and why not. There I was, books piled on both sides of the table, paper stacked up, words falling off my tongue. The robins had been a long time singing, and now it was beginning to rain. What are we sure of? Happiness isn’t a town on a map, or an early arrival, or a job well done, but good work ongoing. Which is not likely to be the trifling around with a poem. Then it began raining hard, and the flowers in the yard were full of lively fragrance. You have had days like this, no doubt. And wasn’t it wonderful, finally, to leave the room? Ah, what a\u00a0 moment! As for myself, I swung the door open. And there was\u00a0 the wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life.\u00a0 Work, Sometimes Mary Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1943,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}