{"id":496,"date":"2026-01-29T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/?p=496"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:49:08","slug":"i-started-writing-poetry-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/i-started-writing-poetry-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I started writing poetry today"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I needed some place to put the sadness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Lady in Blue<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t want to be forward.<br \/>She should have been beautiful &#8211; blond, young, slim, poised.<br \/>But disturbed.<br \/>Here we were in our little room with two open ends.<br \/>She, me, an elderly man pursing his lips and blinking his eyes.<br \/>Waiting to be called to see the man<br \/>in another little room with<br \/>four close walls<br \/>but bright lights<br \/>and look to the left, to the right, up and down.<br \/>&#8220;I lost sight in my eye a week ago.<br \/>They don&#8217;t know what it is.&#8221;<br \/>A quiver, a tremor, a single look into the unknown.<br \/>I was turned toward her<br \/>my own left eye closed.<br \/>Not a large gap, an easy reach<br \/>to speak, to touch, to affirm.<br \/>Yet a gulf of resistance.<br \/>I don&#8217;t know her,<br \/>what would she think.<br \/>The lady in blue came in<br \/>and called her name.<br \/>I wished her well<br \/>and faced forward again.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed some place to put the sadness. The Lady in Blue I didn&#8217;t want to be forward.She should have been beautiful &#8211; blond, young, slim, poised.But disturbed.Here we were in our little room with two open ends.She, me, an elderly man pursing his lips and blinking his eyes.Waiting to be called to see the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miles2go.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}