{"id":860,"date":"2020-09-25T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=860"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:18:47","slug":"birth-of-a-poem-for-frost-and-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/25\/birth-of-a-poem-for-frost-and-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a Poem (for Frost and Miller)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-22-2020Barbara-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-861\" width=\"533\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-22-2020Barbara-6.jpg 653w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-22-2020Barbara-6-300x45.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-22-2020Barbara-6-604x90.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Birth%20of%20a%20Poem.m4a?_t=1596146416\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Birth of Poem (For Robert Frost and Vassar Miller*<\/em>)<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>I\u2019ve had that lump lodged in my throat<br>that lump I could not share.<br>I\u2019ve known that lump ~ a torment, sure<br>that lump which laid me bare.<br>\u00a0<br>The lump which shuddered in the dark<br>when battered thoughts abide:<br>the lump, which choked away my breath<br>and jeopardized my pride.<br>\u00a0<br>For I know a Secret.<br>\u00a0<br>I\u2019ve known that lump, relentless lump:<br>the one which gripped my tongue,<br>with words held hostage by that lump<br>I watched my Judas hung.<br>The pendulum of Judas swung<br>upon her* cheek of night,<br>where ragged Warriors summoned winds<br>and fought the Holy Fight.<br>\u00a0<br>But nothing could persuade me, now<br>to write about that time<br>when Forces of my Brightest Light<br>exposed my darkest crime.<br>\u00a0<br>Some things are best borne silently.<br>Some knowns are best forgot.<br>Some things are gifted just in time<br>to thicken up our plot.<br>\u00a0<br>Regardless, we all know them well ~<br>those lumps we cannot write or tell.<br>\u00a0<br>We all know A Secret.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes \u00a0<br>*Vassar Miller &#8211;<strong><em> Judas<\/em><\/strong><br>8-5-2018\/7-21-2020<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}