{"id":170318,"date":"2020-10-12T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=170318"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:36:08","slug":"the-red-poppy-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/10\/the-red-poppy-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Poppy (a Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing<br \/>\nis not having<br \/>\na mind. Feelings:<br \/>\noh, I have those; they<br \/>\ngovern me. I have<br \/>\na lord in heaven<br \/>\ncalled the sun, and open<br \/>\nfor him, showing him<br \/>\nthe fire of my own heart, fire<br \/>\nlike his presence.<br \/>\nWhat could such glory be<br \/>\nif not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nwere you like me once, long ago,<br \/>\nbefore you were human? Did you<br \/>\npermit yourselves<br \/>\nto open once, who would never<br \/>\nopen again? Because in truth<br \/>\nI am speaking now<br \/>\nthe way you do. I speak<br \/>\nbecause I am shattered.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>From <\/em>The Wild Iris<em>, published by Ecco Press, 1992. Copyright \u00a9 1992 by Louise Gl\u00fcck. All rights reserved. Used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LouiseGluck.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-170319 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LouiseGluck-e1602392778108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/poets.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e329a0cb6f08842f08a05d822&amp;id=fc0e833e6b&amp;e=f6472e3d47\" >Louise Gl\u00fcck<\/a> (1943 &#8211; )\u00a0is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. The author of several collections of poetry, she served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and was the Library of Congress\u2019s twelfth poet laureate consultant in poetry.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/red-poppy-0?mc_cid=6b6984db67&amp;mc_eid=f6472e3d47\" >Go to Original \u2013 poets.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Gl\u00fcck\u00a0is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":170319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,182],"tags":[642,1077,868],"class_list":["post-170318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","category-poetry-format","tag-literature","tag-nobel-literature-prize","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}