{"id":5248,"date":"2026-10-22T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:08:13","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-340\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #340"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/micheile-henderson-ROsXqvRzhiQ-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5249\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ogden Nash was an American writer of light, humorous verse. When I was a kid, we had a book of his poetry and I remember loving his poem, <em>Custard the Dragon<\/em>. His poetry is simply fun with its occasionally nonsensical rhyming scheme and pointed comments on relationships and life. I challenge you to read an Ogden Nash poem and not reach the end with a smile on your face. Sometimes that is exactly what we need out of a poem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">Geniuses of countless nations<br>Have told their love for generations<br>Till all their memorable phrases<br>Are common as goldenrod or daises.<br>Their girls have glimmered like the moon,<br>Or shimmered like a summer moon,<br>Stood like a lily, fled like a fawn,<br>Now the sunset, now the dawn,<br>Here the princess in the tower<br>There the sweet forbidden flower.<br>Darling, when I look at you<br>Every aged phrase is new,<br>And there are moments when it seems<br>I've married one of Shakespeare's dreams.<br><br>Reprise<br>Ogden Nash<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogden Nash was an American writer of light, humorous verse. When I was a kid, we had a book of his poetry and I remember loving his poem, Custard the Dragon. His poetry is simply fun with its occasionally nonsensical rhyming scheme and pointed comments on relationships and life. I challenge you to read an Ogden Nash poem and not reach the end with a smile on your face. Sometimes that is exactly what we need out of a poem. Geniuses of countless nationsHave told their love for generationsTill all their memorable phrasesAre common as goldenrod or daises.Their girls have glimmered like the moon,Or shimmered like a summer moon,Stood like a lily, fled like a fawn,Now the sunset, now the dawn,Here the princess in the towerThere the sweet forbidden flower.Darling, when I look at youEvery aged phrase is new,And there are moments when it seemsI&#8217;ve married one of Shakespeare&#8217;s dreams.RepriseOgden Nash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5249,"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-5248","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\/5248","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=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}