{"id":1694,"date":"2009-12-23T21:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2009-12-23T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T02:47:57","slug":"in-a-dark-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/23\/in-a-dark-time\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Dark Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never developed an appreciation for poetry, but from time to time, I stumble across a poem that is just so &#8230;. <em>right<\/em> &#8230; that I am stunned by its insightfulness.  Such is <em>In a Dark Time<\/em>, by Theodore Roethke.<\/p>\n<h4>In a Dark Time<\/h4>\n<p>In a dark time, the eye begins to see,<br \/>\nI meet my shadow in the deepening shade;<br \/>\nI hear my echo in the echoing wood&#8211;<br \/>\nA lord of nature weeping to a tree,<br \/>\nI live between the heron and the wren,<br \/>\nBeasts of the hill and serpents of the den.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s madness but nobility of soul<br \/>\nAt odds with circumstance? The day&#8217;s on fire!<br \/>\nI know the purity of pure despair,<br \/>\nMy shadow pinned against a sweating wall,<br \/>\nThat place among the rocks&#8211;is it a cave,<br \/>\nOr winding path? The edge is what I have.<\/p>\n<p>A steady storm of correspondences!<br \/>\nA night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,<br \/>\nAnd in broad day the midnight come again!<br \/>\nA man goes far to find out what he is&#8211;<br \/>\nDeath of the self in a long, tearless night,<br \/>\nAll natural shapes blazing unnatural light.<\/p>\n<p>Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire.<br \/>\nMy soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,<br \/>\nKeeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?<br \/>\nA fallen man, I climb out of my fear.<br \/>\nThe mind enters itself, and God the mind,<br \/>\nAnd one is One, free in the tearing wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never developed an appreciation for poetry, but from time to time, I stumble across a poem that is just so &#8230;. right &#8230; that I am stunned by its insightfulness. Such is In a Dark Time, by Theodore Roethke. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/23\/in-a-dark-time\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}