{"id":1162,"date":"2006-05-11T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/poetry-thursday-8\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:47:59","slug":"poetry-thursday-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/poetry-thursday-8\/","title":{"rendered":"POETRY THURSDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great many of my favorite authors are also poets, and if they’re not poets, then they’re as wordsmithy AS poets, and often they use snippets and quotations and poetry in their books, to head chapters or reference or set a mood. This one is in the endpiece of Sheri S. Tepper’s Sideshow<\/i>. She’s a favorite because her books are NEVER predictable. I like predictability in my real life (to a certain extent, and even to a CERTAIN extent, if you know what I mean) but I don’t like it in my reading.* Anyway, this poem struck me like a bell. I used it in one of the pages<\/a> of my collage book as well.<\/p>\n

Man<\/b>
\nby Koi Bashi<\/p>\n

heaven longing ape
\nangel who stumbles
\nblind light bearer
\nwho falls and fumbles
\nworshiper of error
\nseeker after truth
\nhurting and aging
\nlover of lovely youth
\nwild beast raging
\ncraven and brave
\nfreak of fashion
\nand custom’s slave
\npuppet of passion
\nlowest and loftiest
\na sideshow gape
\ngod’s fool, nature’s jest
\nheaven longing ape<\/p>\n

For more wonderful poetry, visit the Poetry Thursday<\/a> website.<\/b><\/p>\n

*I don’t like it in my viewing either which is why I’m very hard to please with movies or television. Hollywood endings are almost always WAY too easy to figure out.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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