{"id":3423,"date":"2021-07-22T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:01:39","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-139\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #139"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stanley Moss is an American poet, publisher, and art dealer. He was educated at Trinity College in Connecticut and Yale University. Poet Hayden Carruth has said of him “The poetry of the ages is an argument with God, but few poets have picked up that argument in recent years. Stanley Moss does…He can continue the argument and keep it immediate to our lives.” This poem caught my attention because it uses God’s name, Jehovah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are Jehovah, and I am a wanderer.\nWho should have mercy on a wanderer\nif not Jehovah? You create and I decay.\nWho should have mercy on the decayed\nif not the creator? You are the Judge\nand I am the guilty. Who should have mercy \non the guilty if not the Judge? You are All\nand I am a particle. Who should have mercy\non a particle if not the All?\nYou are the Living One and I am dead.\nWho should have mercy on the dead if not\nthe Living One? You are the Painter and Potter\nand I am clay. Who should have mercy on clay\nif not the Painter and Potter? You are the fire\nand I am the straw. Who should have mercy on straw\nif not the Fire? You are the Listener\nand I am the reader. Who should have mercy \non the reader if not the Listener? You \nare the Beginning and I am what follows. \nWho should have mercy on what follows\nif not the Beginning? You are the End and I am \nwhat follows. Who should have mercy \non what follows if not the End? \n\nYou and I\nStanley Moss<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stanley Moss is an American poet, publisher, and art dealer. He was educated at Trinity College in Connecticut and Yale University. Poet Hayden Carruth has said of him “The poetry of the ages is an argument with God, but few poets have picked up that argument in recent years. Stanley Moss does…He can continue the argument and keep it immediate to our lives.” This poem caught my attention because it uses God’s name, Jehovah. You are Jehovah, and I am a wanderer. Who should have mercy on a wanderer if not Jehovah? You create and I decay. Who should have mercy on the decayed if not the creator? You are the Judge and I am the guilty. Who should have mercy on the guilty if not the Judge? You are All and I am a particle. Who should have mercy on a particle if not the All? You are the Living One and I am dead. Who should have mercy on the dead if not the Living One? You are the Painter and Potter and I am clay. Who should have mercy on clay if not the Painter and Potter? You are the fire and I am the straw. Who should have mercy on straw if not the Fire? You are the Listener and I am the reader. Who should have mercy on the reader if not the Listener? You are the Beginning and I am what follows. Who should have mercy on what follows if not the Beginning? You are the End and I am what follows. Who should have mercy on what follows if not the End? You and I Stanley Moss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"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-3423","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\/3423","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=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}