{"id":81343,"date":"2018-04-10T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/?p=81343"},"modified":"2020-10-06T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T23:21:13","slug":"this-is-not-spring-and-this-is-not-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2018\/04\/10\/this-is-not-spring-and-this-is-not-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not spring and this is not a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 10, 2018. Snow everywhere and it&#8217;s miserably frigid. The calendar says spring arrived twenty one days ago but this is not spring. So here&#8217;s a poem for questioning how things ought to be in light of how things are and vice versa.<br \/>\nChristine Klocek-Lim\u2019s nuanced poem, \u201cThis is Not a Poem,\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>an <i>ars poetica \u2014 <\/i>a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n\u201cThis is not a poem,\u201d the title insists with Socratic irony. The poet\u2019s feigned ignorance adds satire to the poem. Dickens and other writers used this technique to point out injustices, to make false assumptions apparent.<br \/>\nThe poem invites me to be unsettled, to accept the little bits of my life I can\u2019t control, to embrace ideas that seem strange.<br \/>\nThe way that travel has opened and expanded me, a poem does important work when it subverts my expectations, when it argues against what I know, causing me to see a notion or a memory in a new way, to revise myself, to reconsider where I\u2019m going.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapeintolife.com\/poetry\/christine-klocek-lim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jump over to the website &#8220;Escape Into Life&#8221; to read \u201cThis is Not a Poem\u201d<\/a> and more by the editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/autumnskypoetrydaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Autumn Sky Poetry Daily<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/christinekloceklim.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christine Klocek-Lim<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 10, 2018. Snow everywhere and it&#8217;s miserably frigid. The calendar says spring arrived twenty one days ago but this is not spring. So here&#8217;s a poem for questioning how things ought to be in light of how things are and vice versa. Christine Klocek-Lim\u2019s nuanced poem, \u201cThis is Not a Poem,\u201d\u00a0is\u00a0an ars poetica \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2018\/04\/10\/this-is-not-spring-and-this-is-not-a-poem\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is not spring and this is not a poem<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[239,1114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}