{"id":2576,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2576"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","slug":"terror","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Terror!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 31, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen a writer has a mind that&#8217;s over flowing<br \/>\nThe richness of the verse is ever growing<br \/>\nOr if the writer always works away in prose<br \/>\nThen in these conditions they can see it grows<\/p>\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n<p>The writer&#8217;s greatest fear of all<br \/>\nThe Wall<br \/>\nThe one thing that you can&#8217;t unlock<br \/>\nThe Block<br \/>\nThe feeling that&#8217;s so deep and dank<br \/>\nThe Blank<\/p>\n<p>When your pen is filled with metaphor you cruise<br \/>\nThere is always an allusion you can use<br \/>\nWhether rhymer blank or free,<br \/>\nYou can take this thing from me<br \/>\nWhen you have it is there for all to see<\/p>\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n<p>The writer&#8217;s greatest fear of all<br \/>\nThe Wall<br \/>\nThe one thing that you can&#8217;t unlock<br \/>\nThe Block<br \/>\nThe feeling that&#8217;s so deep and dank<br \/>\nThe Blank<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing worse than staring at a page<br \/>\nThat is sitting getting blanker by the age<br \/>\nSo take pity on us fools,<br \/>\nwho have fallen foul of rules<br \/>\nThe worst of us incompetently drools<\/p>\n<p>SO<\/p>\n<p>The writer&#8217;s greatest fear of all<br \/>\nThe Wall<br \/>\nThe one thing that you can&#8217;t unlock<br \/>\nThe Block<br \/>\nThe feeling that&#8217;s so deep and dank<br \/>\nThe Blank<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why that happened, I was thinking &#8220;what shall I write&#8221; and thought<br \/>\nof nothing so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terror! by cricketjeff on March 31, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When a writer has a mind that&#8217;s over flowing The richness of the verse is ever growing Or if the writer always works away in prose Then in these conditions they can see it grows BUT The writer&#8217;s greatest fear of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2576\/revisions\/8932"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}