{"id":634,"date":"2019-01-14T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=634"},"modified":"2019-01-14T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:09:55","slug":"new-and-old-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/new-and-old-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"New and Old Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stepping into a Forest of Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no path to step from<br \/>Going forward the only choice<br \/>Stepping into a forest of dreams<br \/>Each tree a separate dream<br \/>Each of different type, size, shape<br \/>The forest floor was solid<br \/>But crystal clear<br \/>Revealing dream roots<br \/>All intertwining, all moving<br \/>Connecting with neighbors near and far<br \/>It was not a silent forest<br \/>But I cannot say what I heard<br \/>Except that it pulled me in&nbsp;<br \/>Further secrets further on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">F<em>rom Dreamwork Poems 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WHAT?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What, then, comes after?<br \/>After lament is done?<br \/>After tears are gone?<br \/><g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">After words<\/g> fail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What, then, comes after?<br \/>After wide unseeing eyes?<br \/>After hanging wordless mouths?<br \/>After silences stillborn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What, then, comes after?<br \/>Questions, I guess.<br \/>Different ones now<br \/>Then those not asked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE NEW DARK AGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belief overwhelms all; not just belief in God or any other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">divinity&#8211;divine or human&#8211;but everything becomes mere opinion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">while mere opinion becomes belief and belief supplants knowing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and unknowing turns its back on knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No way to test belief, nor any desire to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belief marries power and the offspring&#8217;s smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">send chills among those who can see what&#8217;s coming:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the Inquisition reborn, Torquemada lives again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REALITY ABSCONDED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reality, Susan Sontag observed, is ineluctable<br \/>But ineluctable has met its match, and the fire is lit<br \/>Ubiquitous addiction to hope prays for the Phoenix<br \/>But no one yet knows what rises from reality absconded<br \/>No one prepared for what is now creeping from the ashes<br \/>Look out for dreams without blindfolds, without earplugs<br \/>So you can see and hear what Yeats foretold long ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping into a Forest of Dreams There was no path to step fromGoing forward the only choiceStepping into a forest of dreamsEach tree a separate dreamEach of different type, size, shapeThe forest floor was solidBut crystal clearRevealing dream rootsAll intertwining, all movingConnecting with neighbors near and farIt was not a silent forestBut I cannot say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}