{"id":65690,"date":"2011-09-27T21:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/65690\/cpc-pick-apart-poetry\/"},"modified":"2011-09-27T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:47:50","slug":"cpc-pick-apart-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/65690\/cpc-pick-apart-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWARD THE BEYOND &#8212; CPC &#8220;Pick-Apart Poetry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i148.photobucket.com\/albums\/s4\/barbkaus\/Waimea%20Valley%20Botanical%20Gardens\/Beginning%20May%2010\/Beginning%201-1-11\/FallLeaves11-4-090151.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">TOWARD THE BEYOND<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">Outside the windows<br \/>\nof my morning,<br \/>\nshadows of distant<br \/>\nsummers past<br \/>\nsurrender to the leaves<br \/>\nof autumn,<br \/>\nmy mind traveling<br \/>\nforward through<br \/>\nuncharted space and time<br \/>\ntoward sundown,<br \/>\nthrough eternity,<br \/>\nand beyond<br \/>\nthe limits<br \/>\nof the unknown.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">(c) barbara kausteklis 9-27-11<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">Written for CPC Pick-Apart Poetry<br \/>\nFeaturing Valentine Smith&#8217;s &#8220;In a Field of Gray.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">The idea of &#8220;Pick-Apart Poetry&#8221; is to choose 25 words <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">from the posted piece (in tonight&#8217;s challenge a work of prose)<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">and use only those 25 words to create a new piece.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">The 25 selected words may be repeated<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">and tenses altered.\u00a0 It has always been a<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">favorite monthly challenge of mine.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/65681\/in-field-gray-featuring-valentine-smith-pick-apart-poetry-barbara-k-cherie\/\">http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/65681\/in-field-gray-featuring-valentine-smith-pick-apart-poetry-barbara-k-cherie\/<\/a><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">I&#8217;m co-hosting there with Cherie and it&#8217;s open now. <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i148.photobucket.com\/albums\/s4\/barbkaus\/Waimea%20Valley%20Botanical%20Gardens\/Beginning%20May%2010\/Beginning%201-1-11\/CPCPickApartBanner9-27-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">I hope you will come over and join us.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">Thanks for all visits and comments on this piece <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">and previous ones posted.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">Big Hugs.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"5\">~barb~<br \/>\n<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOWARD THE BEYOND \u00a0 Outside the windows of my morning, shadows of distant summers past surrender to the leaves of autumn, my mind traveling forward through uncharted space and time toward sundown, through eternity, and beyond the limits of the unknown. \u00a0 (c) barbara kausteklis 9-27-11 Written for CPC Pick-Apart Poetry Featuring Valentine Smith&#8217;s &#8220;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,29],"tags":[63,159,41,4298,4],"class_list":["post-65690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-poems","tag-barbara-k","tag-cpc","tag-photography","tag-pick-apart-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65690","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=65690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}