{"id":10099,"date":"2026-09-04T07:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=10099"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:33:20","slug":"poem-for-jl-4-23-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/poem-for-jl-4-23-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for JL, 4-23-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>Sometimes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>someone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>something,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>some thing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>some entity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>some superstition,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>some specter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>moves me to write a poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You move me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with your potential<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for mystery achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This won&#8217;t be a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>confessional,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ode,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sonnet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sestina,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>although you surely are worthy of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your ass alone a haiku,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>always worth writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and rewriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It says in the Book of Job:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You sow the wind<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>so shall you reap the whirlwind<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might consider sowing seeds and harvesting what grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seeds could be of anything. Use your heart. Use your imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fling seeds with abandon, utterly without grace, never with indifference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh the joys of random germination and seeing sprouts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, sowing not the same as planting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps we reap a whirlwind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and it flies us back to Cape Sebastian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to see those green coves again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, someone, something, some thing, some entity, some superstition, some specter, moves me to write a poem. You move me with your potential for mystery achievement. This won&#8217;t be a confessional, ode, sonnet, sestina, although you surely are worthy of these. Your ass alone a haiku, always worth writing and rewriting. It says in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}