{"id":127,"date":"2005-10-18T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatusmuse.wordpress.com\/2005\/10\/18\/son-1-is-now-a-published-poet"},"modified":"2013-09-12T00:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:52:21","slug":"son-1-is-now-a-published-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2005\/10\/18\/son-1-is-now-a-published-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Son #1 is now a published poet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bvMsg\" id=\"msgcns!B17FB9382CECD331!469\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We just received our copies of <em>The Teacher&#8217;s Selection Anthology of Poetry<\/em>. This particular book focuses on fifth graders&#8217; poetry and our volume contains poetry from across the southeast, from Maryland to Alabama. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Son #1&#8217;s poem is the only one from his school, and only one of two from Greenville. I know there were other poems nominated, but there were probably parents who didn&#8217;t return the permission slip to the publisher. We did, and ordered two copies of the book, one for us, and one for my FIL, who self-publishes a little poetry magazine of his own.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s quite a nice little poem (though I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m biased), and I have his permission to publish it here in my blog.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Cowboy&#8217;s Day<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Sleeping on the prairie blue,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Stars as drops of silver dew,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">And everything&#8217;s a grayish hue,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s dawn.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Suddenly a ray of golden sun,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Makes the stars and sky as one,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">And shines off your trusted gun,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s morning.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Now the sun is blazing down,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">As you drive the cattle into town,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">And on their heads are horns as giant crowns,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s daytime.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Your energy now is spent,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">You&#8217;re in a room you bought for rent,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">And you haven&#8217;t even got a cent,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s finally night.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8211; R.H.B., 2005-<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">To say we&#8217;re proud and pleased would be an understatement.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just received our copies of The Teacher&#8217;s Selection Anthology of Poetry. This particular book focuses on fifth graders&#8217; poetry and our volume contains poetry from across the southeast, from Maryland to Alabama. Son #1&#8217;s poem is the only one from his school, and only one of two from Greenville. I know there were other poems nominated, but there were probably parents who didn&#8217;t return the permission slip to the publisher. We did, and ordered two copies of the book,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2005\/10\/18\/son-1-is-now-a-published-poet\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8AOo6-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}