{"id":258,"date":"2021-02-15T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:16:05","slug":"why-does-every-poet-have-a-story-of-woe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Why does every poet have a story of woe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does every poet have a story of woe?<br>Why is the artist so familiar with darkness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their minds seem to see fractals of hope;<br>Their song, the tune of something broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brokenness their friend, loneliness their companion,<br>Each one, it seems, has known abandonment,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loss, grief, or overwhelming darkness;<br>Been targets of anger, abuse, or someone\u2019s heartlessness &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remnants of these emotions within<br>Shadow their stores of beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet these are the stories of the greatest poets alive,<br>And dead, who\u2019ve filled the world afresh with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspiring lines, profound insights,<br>and miraculous eloquence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their trials seem to be the tools<br>That sharpened their pens for action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps this is to prove<br>Order can come from chaos,<br>And beauty from ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">November 4, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does every poet have a story of woe?Why is the artist so familiar with darkness? Their minds seem to see fractals of hope;Their song, the tune of something broken. Brokenness their friend, loneliness their companion,Each one, it seems, has known abandonment, Loss, grief, or overwhelming darkness;Been targets of anger, abuse, or someone\u2019s heartlessness &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,84],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","tag-poets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}