{"id":643,"date":"2018-12-29T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:24:27","slug":"on-misreading-salinger-guest-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/on-misreading-salinger-guest-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"On Misreading Salinger &#8211; Guest Poem by Todd Mikosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;No, never!&nbsp; Know never!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe stabbing sound of those loud words.<br \/>\nWould this new gash heal, ever?<br \/>\nWill my death be what I have heard?<\/p>\n<p>Closing my eyes, I see<br \/>\nThe frollicking glades of my soul<br \/>\nWhere children play in glee.<br \/>\nThe newer blade&#8211;that knife of old&#8211;<br \/>\nMakes nearby trees to bleed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, even if I ever die,<br \/>\nAnd children age to feeble rot,<br \/>\nMy love and joy will never die,<br \/>\nAnd children&#8217;s youth will blemish not&#8211;<br \/>\nNot even if I ever die.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Poem Style &#8211; Kyielle \/ Poem Catagory &#8211; Other<br \/>\nWritten by Todd Mikosh<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Comments from the Author:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a selected poem from my self-published anthology, Mangled Doves, available at Lulu.com and Amazon.com.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a collection of all the poetry that I&#8217;ve ever written since high school, along with all my short stories, essays, a novella, and most of the fragments from unfinished poems and alternative versions; so it would be good fodder for a literature class but will only be sought out by those who know some of the poems contained inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No, never!&nbsp; Know never!&#8221; The stabbing sound of those loud words. Would this new gash heal, ever? Will my death be what I have heard? Closing my eyes, I see The frollicking glades of my soul Where children play in glee. The newer blade&#8211;that knife of old&#8211; Makes nearby trees to bleed. Yet, even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest","category-kyrielle","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/guest-poetry.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKwh0-an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}