{"id":6167,"date":"2013-04-27T00:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2013-04-24T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:43:47","slug":"three-from-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2013-a-month-of-somedays\/three-from-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Three from 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My oldest poems swing between love and loss. I&#8217;ll spare you the bulk of early efforts, but these three still appeal to me. <em class=\"sig\">mjh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve cried and I&#8217;ve laughed<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve loved and I&#8217;ve lost<br \/>\nand yearned for companionship,<br \/>\nwhatever the cost.<br \/>\nAnd through all the learning<br \/>\nand loving and living,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve wanted to balance<br \/>\nthe taking and giving.<\/p>\n<p><small>Fall 1977<\/small><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>October Fourth<\/p>\n<p>I need to hold a pen all night.<br \/>\nI need to hold a lover.<br \/>\nI need to hold a friend all night.<br \/>\nI need to hold some other<br \/>\nsome other one to comfort me<br \/>\nto cuddle and embrace<br \/>\nsomeone to be here next to me<br \/>\nand fill this empty space.<\/p>\n<p><small>10\/4\/1977<\/small><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Your scent has left my skin<br \/>\nfollowing your warmth.<br \/>\nYour taste has left my tongue,<br \/>\nnow dry in my mouth.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve gone<br \/>\nand taken the things one can&#8217;t<br \/>\nleave behind for long.<br \/>\nGone from my senses,<br \/>\nyou remain in my thoughts,<br \/>\nmy thoughts that tumble over each other<br \/>\nin search of ink<br \/>\nonly to dry in my mind<br \/>\nbefore they reach the page.<\/p>\n<p><small>05-25-1977<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My oldest poems swing between love and loss. I&#8217;ll spare you the bulk of early efforts, but these three still appeal to me. mjh I&#8217;ve cried and I&#8217;ve laughed I&#8217;ve loved and I&#8217;ve lost and yearned for companionship, whatever the cost. And through all the learning and loving and living, I&#8217;ve wanted to balance the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2013-a-month-of-somedays\/three-from-1977\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three from 1977<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[152,151],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-a-month-of-somedays","tag-loss","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6168,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}