{"id":1924,"date":"2021-12-26T20:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T04:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2024-07-16T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:51:58","slug":"in-the-sun-classic-25-line-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"In The Sun [Classic] (20 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long ago I left the shade.<br>I had to have the sun.<br>I meant to take you with me,<br>But I left you behind.<br>The sunlight made me blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a time it was fantastic:<br>My every word recorded,<br>My every thought revealed.<br>Accustomed to the light,<br>You faded from my sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the newness has worn off.<br>The excitement has gone by.<br>Charred and blackened by the sun,<br>Having thought I had it made,<br>I seek shelter in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the edge, they keep me out.<br>They want me in the light.<br>My eyes can\u2019t find you in the shade.<br>Loneliness propels me on.<br>Help me back before the dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<i><p style=\"color: #00006d;\">Some notes on this poem:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-left:40px; color: #00006d;\"> \n<li>I made some small adjustments when posting:<\/li>\n<ul style=\"margin-left:40px; color: #00006d;\">\n<li style=\"color: #00006d;\">2nd stanza: two lines exchanged order<\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #00006d;\"> 4th stanza: a word add, and a full line swap (with another existing line in my notes). Nothing&nbsp;super major, but it helped the overall rhyming and the flow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>I may have been morphing this into a song. I have a line of music at the bottom of the last page (I&#8217;ll have to pull out the guitar and give it a go):<\/li>\n<\/ol> \n<\/i>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/music-1024x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/music-1024x183.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/music-300x54.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/music-768x138.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/music.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago I left the shade.I had to have the sun.I meant to take you with me,But I left you behind.The sunlight made me blind. For a time it was fantastic:My every word recorded,My every thought revealed.Accustomed to the light,You faded from my sight. But the newness has worn off.The excitement has gone by.Charred and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In The Sun [Classic] (20 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}