{"id":7,"date":"2020-10-15T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/a-poem-for-thursday-102\/"},"modified":"2020-10-24T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T16:16:55","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/a-poem-for-thursday-102\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #102"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Tennessee Williams is best known for writing plays such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof <\/i>and A Streetcar Named Desire. <\/i>However, he also wrote short stories, essays, and poetry.<\/p>\n

We have not long to love.<\/i><\/p>\n

Light does not stay.<\/i><\/p>\n

The tender things are those<\/i><\/p>\n

we fold away.<\/i><\/p>\n


\n<\/i>Coarse fabrics are the ones<\/i><\/p>\n

for common wear.<\/i><\/p>\n

In silence I have watched you<\/i><\/p>\n

comb your hair.<\/i><\/p>\n


\n<\/i>Intimate the silence,<\/i><\/p>\n

dim and warm.<\/i><\/p>\n

I could, but did not, reach<\/i><\/p>\n

to touch your arm.<\/i><\/p>\n


\n<\/i>I could, but do not, break <\/i><\/p>\n

that which is still.<\/i><\/p>\n

(Almost the faintest whisper<\/i><\/p>\n

would be shrill.)<\/i><\/p>\n


\n<\/i>So moments pass as though<\/i><\/p>\n

they wished to stay.<\/i><\/p>\n

We have not long to love<\/i><\/p>\n

.<\/i>A night. A day…<\/i><\/p>\n


\n<\/i>We Have Not Long to Love<\/i><\/p>\n

Tennessee Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by\u00a0Paul Cusick\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash Tennessee Williams is best known for writing plays such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire. However, he also wrote short stories, essays, and poetry. We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away. Coarse fabrics are the ones for common wear. In silence I have watched you comb your hair. Intimate the silence, dim and warm. I could, but did not, reach to touch your arm. I could, but do not, break that which is still. (Almost the faintest whisper would be shrill.) So moments pass as though they wished to stay. We have not long to love .A night. A day… We Have Not Long to Love Tennessee Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"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-7","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\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}