{"id":25438,"date":"2019-11-26T18:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25438"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T02:11:04","slug":"three-of-my-poems-are-up-on-bigcitylit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25438","title":{"rendered":"Three of My Poems Are Up on BigCityLit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had poems accepted by a literary magazine, so I&#8217;m really happy that <a href=\"http:\/\/nycbigcitylit.com\/richard-newman\/\">BigCityLit<\/a>\u00a0accepted three poems from the sequence, &#8220;This Poem Is A Metaphor For Bridge.&#8221; Here&#8217;s on the of them:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>11<\/h4>\n<p>Before you have a chance<br \/>\nto sing a word,<br \/>\nthe music stops,<br \/>\nits final note<br \/>\na pebble dropped<br \/>\nfrom high above the trees.<\/p>\n<p>The ripple spreads itself<br \/>\nalong the path you use<br \/>\nto steer your herd towards home.<br \/>\nForget the wood you\u2019ve chopped.<br \/>\nAlone, you\u2019ll never build<br \/>\nthe necessary fire,<\/p>\n<p>and in this metaphor<br \/>\nyou are alone. So place<br \/>\nthat sharpened stone<br \/>\nbefore the altar,<br \/>\nwatch the light approach,<br \/>\nand tell us what you see.<\/p>\n<p>What you perceive<br \/>\nis pointless obfuscation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read the other two, you can find them <a href=\"http:\/\/nycbigcitylit.com\/richard-newman\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had poems accepted by a literary magazine, so I&#8217;m really happy that BigCityLit\u00a0accepted three poems from the sequence, &#8220;This Poem Is A Metaphor For Bridge.&#8221; Here&#8217;s on the of them: 11 Before you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25439,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions\/25439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}