{"id":661,"date":"2020-06-24T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=661"},"modified":"2020-06-24T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:13:19","slug":"poem-of-the-month-a-plea-to-words-on-my-friends-birthday-by-dorothy-dellabough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: A Plea to Words&#8230;on my friend&#8217;s birthday by Dorothy Dellabough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unborn words, aching on my tongue<br \/>\ncrouching in the mind\u2019s mystic sand,<br \/>\ncome be drawn by a longing hand<br \/>\nfor a friend whose song must be sung.<\/p>\n<p>Do not bind my heart alive among<br \/>\ndark meanings like a prison band,<br \/>\nflower free as out of some new land,<br \/>\nshower her with your garlands flung.<\/p>\n<p>Be fresh and strong, in bright array,<br \/>\nspring at her with a strangeness I seek,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>all dimness downed, each phrase unique,<br \/>\nsing love to my friend in one new way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Plea to Words&#8221; was included in my memoir,\u00a0<em>Searching for Armando<\/em>, La Sirena Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/il_570xN.1868647651_4sbj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-662\" src=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/il_570xN.1868647651_4sbj-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/il_570xN.1868647651_4sbj-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/il_570xN.1868647651_4sbj.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unborn words, aching on my tongue crouching in the mind\u2019s mystic sand, come be drawn by a longing hand for <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=661\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-noellesickelswp","post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-allposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}