{"id":10101,"date":"2013-10-31T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.local\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:59:07","slug":"one-more-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2013\/10\/one-more-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10095\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10095    \" src=\"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lisa-on-wakefield-river-journal-e1383235397284.jpg\" alt=\"writing coach Lisa Tener\" width=\"317\" height=\"423\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your writing coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I promise this <a title=\"book writing\" href=\"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/getting-started-book-writing-classes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book writing<\/a> and <a title=\"book publishing \" href=\"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2013\/02\/publishing-tips-from-a-top-literary-agent-an-interview-with-regina-brooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publishing <\/a>blog will not turn into a <a title=\"poetry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poetry <\/a>blog, I felt I left you with a rather intense image with yesterday&#8217;s post\/poem and thought a little word play might lighten things up.<\/p>\n<p><b>I wrestle a noun<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wrestle a noun till it yells \u201cUncle,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lasso a verb and reel it in.<\/p>\n<p>Tussle with tenses,<\/p>\n<p>Find a few prepositions<\/p>\n<p>Within a box in a closet under the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t resist and reach for the stars<\/p>\n<p>Where I nab a sparkly adjective<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a title=\"Frank Conroy writing mentor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Conroy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Conroy<\/a>\u2019s warning,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t touch that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And oh-those-tempting adverbs.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, hesitantly,<\/p>\n<p>I turn away<\/p>\n<p>And they whisper \u201cTake me\u201d \u201cuse me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until I can no longer bear it.<\/p>\n<p>Reluctantly, I reach for one, no two, no three.<\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t be helped.<\/p>\n<p>More nouns, verbs, toss in a couple of prepositions<\/p>\n<p>and one conjunction to hold it all together:<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Soup.<\/p>\n<p>To think I started with only a stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I promise this book writing and publishing blog will not turn into a poetry blog, I felt I left you with a rather intense image with yesterday&#8217;s post\/poem and thought a little word play might lighten things up. 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