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But I, Too, Want to be a Poet<\/p>\n
But I, too, want to be a poet<\/em> To sing again<\/em> To end this tumultuous quest<\/em> To have the height to view<\/em> To be free of the need<\/em> and no visible recompense<\/em><\/p>\n -Fanny Howe<\/p>\n So, the fog finally cleared, only because it is so windy it blew away and so it’s still impossible to do any outdoor photography. I’m not feeling too inspired for the studio either so I started backward through the files and got to November 17 before I found something I liked. A nice scene from the Applegate Valley. There used to be a huge white barn on this site but sometime in the past two years it just vanished. At least they left some of the old farm equipment. I got a couple of new poetry books today so instead of looking for something to fit the photo I just paged through until I found one I liked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But I, Too, Want to be a Poet But I, too, want to be a poet to erase from my days confusion & poverty fiction & a sharp tongue To sing again with the tones of adolescence demanding vengeance against my enemies, with words clear & austere To end this tumultuous quest for reasonable solutions … Continue reading Day 85 – Applegate Valley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-landscape","category-nostalgia"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto erase from my days<\/em>
\nconfusion & poverty<\/em>
\nfiction & a sharp tongue<\/em><\/p>\n
\nwith the tones of adolescence<\/em>
\ndemanding vengeance<\/em>
\nagainst my enemies, with words<\/em>
\nclear & austere<\/em><\/p>\n
\nfor reasonable solutions<\/em>
\nto situations mysterious & sore<\/em><\/p>\n
\nmyself as I view others<\/em>
\nwith lenience & love<\/em><\/p>\n
\nto make a waste of money<\/em>
\nwhen my passion,<\/em>
\nfirst and last,<\/em>
\nis for the ecstatic lash<\/em>
\nof the poetic line<\/em><\/p>\n