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For Maeve<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Maeve<\/p>\n This poem is not about you, it is about another Maeve; <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John Hawkhead<\/strong> is a writer of haiku and other short poetry forms. His work has been published all over the world in small press magazines and the Internet. His book of poetry and haiku Witness<\/em> is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Maeve Dear Maeve This poem is not about you, it is about another Maeve; this you must understand before we can proceed and it is likely that Maeve herself will not like this so we must be careful what we say. I know you, Maeve, will think this unfair, and consider that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthis you must understand before we can proceed
\nand it is likely that Maeve herself will not like this
\nso we must be careful what we say.
\nI know you, Maeve, will think this unfair,
\nand consider that poems are always
\nabout the other, entirely different Maeve,
\nSo you will cry and rail about the other Maeve
\nand ask why you are never the Maeve
\nand I will not be able to answer.
\nI do not know why there is no poem for you Maeve
\nwhen there are so many written for Maeve,
\nthere is no reason, no logic, no explanation,
\nI hope you can understand.<\/p>\n