{"id":2125,"date":"2016-12-15T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:29","slug":"dec-15-a-wednesday-post-one-day-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/15\/dec-15-a-wednesday-post-one-day-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 15, a Wednesday post one day late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 15<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was busy with lots of valuable things, \u00a0didn\u2019t make it to the day\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>Here. \u00a0One of my deepest poetry loves. \u00a0Read it out loud. \u00a0 More tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday\u2019s post \u00a0Denise Levertov, from\u00a0\u201cConversations in Moscow\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the poet\u2013it\u2019s midnight, the room is half empty, soon we must part\u2013<br \/>\nthe poet, his presence<br \/>\nursine and kind, shifting his weight in a chair too small for him,<br \/>\nquietly says, and shyly:<br \/>\n\u201cThe Poet<br \/>\nnever must lose despair.\u201d<br \/>\nThen our eyes indeed<br \/>\nmeet and hold,<br \/>\nAll of us know, smiling<br \/>\nin common knowledge\u2013<br \/>\neven the palest spirit among us, burdened<br \/>\nas he is with weight of abstractions\u2013<br \/>\nall of us know he means<\/p>\n<p>we mustn\u2019t, any of us, lose touch with the source,<br \/>\npretend it\u2019s not there, cover over<br \/>\nthe mineshaft of passion<br \/>\ndespair somberly tolls its bell<br \/>\nfrom the depths of,<br \/>\nand wildest joy<br \/>\nsings out of too,<br \/>\nflashing<br \/>\nthe scales of its laughing, improbable music,<br \/>\ngrief and delight entwined in the dark down there.<\/p>\n<p>from \u00a0<em>Freeing of the Dust<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2002\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov.jpg\" alt=\"denise-levertov\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov.jpg 186w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denise Levertov<br \/>\nb. October 1923 \u00a0d. December 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 15 Yesterday was busy with lots of valuable things, \u00a0didn\u2019t make it to the day\u2019s post. Here. \u00a0One of my deepest poetry loves. \u00a0Read it out loud. \u00a0 More tomorrow. john sj &nbsp; Yesterday\u2019s post \u00a0Denise Levertov, from\u00a0\u201cConversations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/15\/dec-15-a-wednesday-post-one-day-late\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}