{"id":3346,"date":"2020-02-07T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:33:51","slug":"feb-7-a-very-young-poet-when-you-listen-you-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/02\/07\/feb-7-a-very-young-poet-when-you-listen-you-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 7  &#8211;  a very young poet &#8212; &#8220;When you listen, you reach . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday, February 7, 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cIt can be your brain, your<br \/>\nfingers, your toes,<br \/>\nYou can listen anywhere\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poems appear sometimes like this \u2014 a friend sends me a poem; \u00a0it sits on the edge of awareness for 2 or 3 months; \u00a0finally I notice the poem, read it, am moved by it, look around internet places to learn a little about the poet, and write a post to contextualize it. \u00a0This poet found his way into my attention during the winter of 2016. \u00a0 The \u00a0poem introduced me to a poetry list titled \u201c<u>Poetry \u2014 for better or worse: \u00a0My favorite poems, one by one\u201d<\/u>\u00a0 at a cheeky website \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftiltingourheadsup.blogspot.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cketterrd%40udmercy.edu%7Cfc1276fc9c0246ca0e5008d7abe5590a%7Cc8a4c2d8bd6840bab8b67522be9a7171%7C0%7C0%7C637166873954756167&amp;sdata=%2BaMQm9bwsA9axsS%2Fh4Ac8hj3ZZ97UZADSkZVxFiBCdU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">http:\/\/tiltingourheadsup.blogspot.com<\/a>. \u00a0So far I have not found the editor\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>How do you like this poem, written when the poet was in fifth grade?\u00a0 Lovely fresh snow on our campus corner + Nick\u2019s fresh voice reminds me to thank this February Friday for its blessings and surprises. \u00a0Best to read the poem out loud, with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest weekend,<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0\u201cWaiting in Line\u201d:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>[Curator\u2019s note: Nick Penna was in fifth grade when he wrote this poem.]<\/p>\n<p>When you listen you reach<br \/>\ninto dark corners and<br \/>\npull out your wonders.<br \/>\nWhen you listen your<br \/>\nideas come in and out<br \/>\nlike they were waiting in line.<\/p>\n<p>Your ears don\u2019t always listen.<br \/>\nIt can be your brain, your<br \/>\nfingers, your toes.<br \/>\nYou can listen anywhere.<br \/>\nYour mind might not want to go.<br \/>\nIf you can listen you can find<br \/>\nanswers to questions you didn\u2019t know.<br \/>\nIf you have listened, truly<br \/>\nlistened, you don\u2019t find your<br \/>\nself alone.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting in Line, Nick Penna from\u00a0<u>Poetic Medicine, the Healing Art of Poem Making\u201d<\/u>, John Fox @ Jeremy P Tarcher, \u00a0Putnam 1997<br \/>\nPosted in \u201cA Year of Being Here\u201d \u00a0Phyllis Cole-Dai \u00a0January 29, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, February 7, 2020 \u201cIt can be your brain, your fingers, your toes, You can listen anywhere\u201d Poems appear sometimes like this \u2014 a friend sends me a poem; \u00a0it sits on the edge of awareness for 2 or 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/02\/07\/feb-7-a-very-young-poet-when-you-listen-you-reach\/\">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\/3346"}],"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=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}