{"id":114307,"date":"2014-01-14T22:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114307\/poem-immortality\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T22:42:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:42:41","slug":"poem-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114307\/poem-immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Immortality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/114298\/wonderful-wednesday-goes-bats-for-hats\/\">CPC Wonderful Wednesday poetry challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>Host Bettie&#8217;s theme is National Hat Day. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/Fling%20Pics\/SEUDONE.gif.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/SEUDONE.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo SEUDONE.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\" color=\"#000000\"><strong>IMMORTALITY?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\" color=\"#000000\"><strong><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\">A sort of poem, written in a new format, the Twaddle,<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"> silly themes written in twelve lines in descending number of syllables from twelve to one,<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\">in ABAB rhyme, with a refrain in between the first, second and third stanzas.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"> A curious facet of life on this planet<br \/>\n is questioning what life itself is about.<br \/>\n Can life go on forever?\u00a0 Well, can it?<br \/>\n Do we know, or is there room for doubt?<br \/>\n Why not ask the cat in the hat?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The cat in the hat knows a lot about that,<br \/>\n but he don&#8217;t know squat about that.<br \/>\n boom boom<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What is it he knows about? <br \/>\n The refrain is unclear.<br \/>\n Perhaps you should shout<br \/>\n so all can hear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The cat in the hat knows a lot about that,<br \/>\n but he don&#8217;t know squat about that.<br \/>\n boom boom<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"> I get it.<br \/>\n You don&#8217;t<br \/>\n know.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"> Copyright January 14th 2014 RGD<\/font><br \/>\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written for the CPC Wonderful Wednesday poetry challenge. Host Bettie&#8217;s theme is National Hat Day. \u00a0 IMMORTALITY? A sort of poem, written in a new format, the Twaddle, silly themes written in twelve lines in descending number of syllables from twelve to one, in ABAB rhyme, with a refrain in between the first, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114307","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=114307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}