{"id":312,"date":"2018-03-21T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:12:29","slug":"world-poetry-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"World Poetry Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here&#8217;s a piece for World Poetry Day 2018 from one of our members, Roddie McKenzie.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Mind and Poem<\/p>\n<p>I am the man,<br \/>\nthe poem lives in me,<br \/>\nimpressions of wondrous<br \/>\nthings that I see,<br \/>\nfished out<br \/>\nby the neural net of my mind.<br \/>\nWith paper and pen,<br \/>\nthis beauty<br \/>\nI bind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Paper-and-Pen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Paper-and-Pen-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Paper-and-Pen.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Paper-and-Pen-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Paper-and-Pen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Paper-and-Pen-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am the mind, the poem is I,<br \/>\nthe crystallised thought<br \/>\nthat will never die.<br \/>\nDistilled from centuries of fermented thought.<br \/>\nI am the spirit,<br \/>\nfolk should have sought.<\/p>\n<p>I am the man, the poem, the soul.<br \/>\ncreated in flesh for an immortal role.<br \/>\nI am Malkuth, beginning and end<br \/>\nI am Kether, the cosmic diadem.<\/p>\n<p>Roddie McKenzie, 1972 (tweeked March20th 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a piece for World Poetry Day 2018 from one of our members, Roddie McKenzie. Mind and Poem I am the man, the poem lives in me, impressions of wondrous things that I see, fished out by the neural net of my mind. With paper and pen, this beauty I bind. I am the mind,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=312\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Poetry Day 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}