{"id":110788,"date":"2013-08-28T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T04:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110788\/poem-dream-date\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T00:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T04:15:42","slug":"poem-dream-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110788\/poem-dream-date\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Dream Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Pick-Apart poetry challenge<\/a>, from words in two excerpted stanzas from a poem by Adelaide Crapsey, who also invented the Cinquain. \u00a0The two original \u00a0poems follow my Pic n Poem. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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THE PROPERLY SCHOLARLY ATTITUDE<\/font><\/p>\n

The poet <\/font>pursues <\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>his beautiful theme;
\n The preacher his golden <\/font>beatitude<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>;
\n And<\/font> I run after<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong> a vanishing <\/font>dream<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>\u2014
\n The <\/font>glittering<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>, will-o\u2019-the-wispish <\/font>gleam<\/strong><\/font><\/strong>
\n Of the properly scholarly attitude\u2014
\n The <\/font>highly desirable<\/strong><\/font><\/strong>, the very <\/font>advisable,<\/strong><\/font><\/strong>
\n The hardly acquirable, properly scholarly attitude.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/font>I work and I work till I nearly am dead,
\n <\/font>And<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> could say <\/font>what the<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> watchman said\u2014that I could!
\n But still, <\/font>with<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> a <\/font>sigh<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> and a shake of the head,
\n \u201c<\/font>You<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> don\u2019t understand,\u201d<\/font> it is<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> ruthlessly said,
\n \u201cThe properly scholarly attitude\u2014
\n The<\/font> aye<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> <\/font>to<\/strong><\/font><\/strong> <\/font>be sought for<\/strong><\/font><\/strong>, wrought for and fought for,
\n The ne\u2019er to be caught for, properly scholarly <\/font>attitude<\/strong><\/font><\/strong>\u2014\u201d
\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Pick-Apart poetry challenge, from words in two excerpted stanzas from a poem by Adelaide Crapsey, who also invented the Cinquain. \u00a0The two original \u00a0poems follow my Pic n Poem. \u00a0 THE PROPERLY SCHOLARLY ATTITUDE The poet pursues his beautiful theme; The preacher his golden beatitude ; And I run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}