{"id":596,"date":"2004-05-06T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T22:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2004-05-06T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T22:49:03","slug":"poem-in-your-pocket-week-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/06\/poem-in-your-pocket-week-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem In Your Pocket Week: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
joy<\/strong>“don’t cry, it’s only music,”
\nsomeone’s voice is saying.
\n“no one you love is dying.”<\/p>\n

it’s only music. and it was only spring,
\nthe world’s unreasoning body
\nrun amok, like a saint’s, with glory,
\nthat overwhelmed a young girl
\ninto unreasoning sadness.
\n“crazy,” she told herself,
\n“i should be dancing with happiness.”<\/p>\n

but it happened again. it happens
\nwhen we make bottomless love–
\nthere follows a bottomless sadness
\nwhich is not despair
\nbut its nameless opposite.
\nit has nothing to do with the passing of time.
\nit’s not about loss. it’s about
\ntwo seemingly parallel lines
\nsuddenly coming together
\ninside us, in some place
\nthat is still wilderness.<\/p>\n

joy, joy, the sopranos sing,
\nreaching for the shimmering notes
\nwhile our eyes fill with tears.<\/p>\n

–Unknown (to me)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

What’s Poem in Your Pocket Week?<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

joy“don’t cry, it’s only music,” someone’s voice is saying. “no one you love is dying.” it’s only music. and it was only spring, the world’s unreasoning body run amok, like a saint’s, with glory, that overwhelmed a young girl into unreasoning sadness. “crazy,” she told herself, “i should be dancing with happiness.” but it happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}