{"id":415,"date":"2014-05-28T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2019-06-08T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:29:22","slug":"rearranging-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Rearranging Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140528-132618.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140528-132618.jpg\" alt=\"20140528-132618.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;d walked by it for months and left it untouched. But finally I turned around and knelt down and started moving the pieces back up to eye view. <\/p>\n<p>It was magnetic word poetry, given to me by friends.  When I first put it on my fridge, I&#8217;d ask my friends to make a phrase or poem before they left. But last year, while I was dating a guy with kids, they got rearranged.  The children couldn&#8217;t read, the words meant nothing to them. Instead, they focused on making random lines and bringing things down to their level.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for us to destroy what we can not appreciate.  Or to disregard the impact of one existence over another. <\/p>\n<p>The old poetry was gone.  But as i moved the words back up within reach, new poetry started being formed.  I found myself smiling at the new combinations I could make, the new phrases I could combine.  <\/p>\n<p>Maya Angelou passed away today.  I remember the thrill of going to see her in person a few years ago and hearing her talk.  I remember the inspiration her words held and still hold for me.  I wondered what new words would inspire us now.   <\/p>\n<p>Maybe now is the time for us to look back at the language we use, the language that has been brought down to a lower level, and bend down and bring it back up to a higher view.  <\/p>\n<p>I wonder what poetry we could make if we only tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d walked by it for months and left it untouched. But finally I turned around and knelt down and started moving the pieces back up to eye view. It was magnetic word poetry, given to me by friends. When I first put it on my fridge, I&#8217;d ask my friends to make a phrase or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[212,9,85,211,210,228],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","tag-children","tag-dating-2","tag-kids","tag-magnetic-poetry","tag-maya-angelou","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UnPK-6H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}