{"id":2764,"date":"2011-01-10T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T10:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2011-01-10T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T10:42:18","slug":"poem-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/poem-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: This World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s poem is by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), New England transcendentalist, and written about 1862.<\/p>\n

This World is not Conclusion.
\nA Species stands beyond –
\nInvisible, as Music –
\nBut positive, as Sound –
\nIt beckons, and it baffles –
\nPhilosophy – don’t know –
\nAnd through a Riddle, at the last –
\nSagacity, must go –
\nTo guess it, puzzles scholars –
\nTo gain it, Men have borne
\nContempt of Generations
\nAnd Crucifixion, shown –
\nFaith slips – and laughs, and rallies –
\nBlushes, if any see –
\nPlucks at a twig of Evidence –
\nAnd asks a Vane, the way –
\nMuch Gesture, from the Pulpit –
\nStrong Hallelujahs roll –
\nNarcotics cannot still the Tooth
\nThat nibbles at the soul –<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reference:<\/em>
\nBrenda Hillman (Editor) [1995]: Emily Dickinson: Poems.<\/em> Boston, MA, USA: Shambhala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s poem is by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), New England transcendentalist, and written about 1862. This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond – Invisible, as Music – But positive, as Sound – It beckons, and it baffles – Philosophy – don’t know – And through a Riddle, at the last – Sagacity, must go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-religion","p1","y2011","m01","d10","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}