{"id":1453,"date":"2008-11-06T09:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T09:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2008-11-06T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T09:59:54","slug":"oonah-joslin-says-well-you-asked-me-about-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/oonah-joslin-says-well-you-asked-me-about-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Oonah Joslin says 'well you asked me about poetry'"},"content":{"rendered":"

You asked me<\/span>
 <\/span>

about poems;<\/span>
the ones that have say two words then one word a line and no real rhyme or rhythm that grabs you.<\/span>
Let me explain…<\/span>
 <\/span>
The placing of each single word can affect its<\/span>
importance<\/span>
for the reader<\/span>
 <\/span>
because<\/span>
the reader has to<\/span>
pause.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Not two paws,<\/span>
to pause,<\/span>
to punctuate,<\/span>
 <\/span>
linger,<\/span>
finger poised over the<\/span>
thought of it.<\/span>
 <\/span>
And sometimes a silky mound of sound<\/span>
catches him<\/span>
unaware<\/span>
 <\/span>
he has to<\/span>
 <\/span>
stop<\/span>
 <\/span>
stare<\/span>
 <\/span>
language in the face,<\/span>
wonder<\/span>
about meaning.<\/span>


* Oonah Joslin likes poetry so much that she has joined the staff of Every Day Poets<\/span> which formally went live last weekend<\/span><\/font>
\nwww.everydaypoets.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You asked me about poems;the ones that have say two words then one word a line and no real rhyme or rhythm that grabs you.Let me explain… The placing of each single word can affect itsimportancefor the reader becausethe reader has topause. Not two paws,to pause,to punctuate, linger,finger poised over thethought of it. And sometimes a silky mound of soundcatches himunaware he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}