{"id":1134,"date":"2019-01-21T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:05:24","slug":"verba-volant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/21\/verba-volant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Verba Volant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(Hommage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/detail\/17168\">Archibald McLeish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.illinois.edu\/maps\/poets\/s_z\/whitman\/song.htm\">Walt Whitman<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Verba Volant<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A verse need not mean<br \/>\nBut be,<\/p>\n<p>Its song climbing skyward<br \/>\nOn sound &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Its symbols allusive,<br \/>\nNot true.<\/p>\n<p>      *<\/p>\n<p>Yet its words,<br \/>\nThe reverse,<\/p>\n<p>They cannot, too,<br \/>\nHang there sky-borne<br \/>\nSuspended in time \u2014<\/p>\n<p>No, to mean<br \/>\nWords still need<\/p>\n<p>To touch down<br \/>\nPalpably<\/p>\n<p>On the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Poets may gainsay themselves;<br \/>\nWords may not.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hommage to Archibald McLeish and Walt Whitman) Verba Volant A verse need not mean But be, Its song climbing skyward On sound &#8212; Its symbols allusive, Not true. * Yet its words, The reverse, They cannot, too, Hang there sky-borne Suspended in time \u2014 No, to mean Words still need To touch down Palpably On &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/21\/verba-volant-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Verba Volant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}