{"id":94728,"date":"2012-08-18T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/94728\/poem-dalis-ghost\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T23:43:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:43:23","slug":"poem-dalis-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/94728\/poem-dalis-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Dali&#8217;s Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\">This poem was written to the art below, by Romanian artist gyurka. \u00a0It is the featured image on this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/94723\/simple-sunday-learns-walk-artistic-side\/#comment-280422\">CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge<\/a>.<\/font><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=learningtowalk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/learningtowalk.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Learning To Walk\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>DALI\u2019S GHOST<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\nFrom his divine conjural perch<br \/>\nthe Dali Rama can review<br \/>\nthe products of his lifelong search<br \/>\nto fascinate the likes of you.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\nOf terraced hillsides feeding those<br \/>\nwho lived in whitewashed villages.<br \/>\nOf sand dunes made of paintbrushed prose<br \/>\nand fishers\u2019 seaside pillages.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\nThe crafting twixt truth and absurd,<br \/>\nexpending energies of life,<br \/>\nto fabricate like wirewalk bird<br \/>\nsurreal with brush and palette knife.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\nUpon the same legacy scene<br \/>\nhe sees you viewing his career.<br \/>\nAnd wonders, did you truly glean<br \/>\nsome value from what he held dear?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\nIn pregnant instant all\u2019s made whole<br \/>\nif in your eyes his fleeting ghost<br \/>\ncollects appreciation\u2019s toll<br \/>\nand knows his soul survived its host.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\"> Copyright August 19th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was written to the art below, by Romanian artist gyurka. \u00a0It is the featured image on this week&#8217;s CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge. DALI\u2019S GHOST From his divine conjural perch the Dali Rama can review the products of his lifelong search to fascinate the likes of you. Of terraced hillsides feeding those who [&hellip;]<\/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-94728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94728","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=94728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}