{"id":3150,"date":"2017-09-17T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T21:01:37","slug":"sad-to-be-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/sad-to-be-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad To Be a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hot off the presses, this poem which appears in <\/em>California Quarterly<em>, Vol 43, Number 3 (2017), p. 45. You can order a copy at <\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastatepoetrysociety.org\">www.CaliforniaStatePoetrySociety.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sad to be a child.<br \/>\nHowever hard one watches,<br \/>\nbranches never grasp the clouds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">stuff which drifts like moods<br \/>\nand slips between the crotches.<br \/>\nSad to be a child<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">whose play becomes to brood<br \/>\nwithin a brushwood fortress<br \/>\nwhere branches never grasp the clouds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">whims are driven as if scuds<br \/>\nand wishes come in snatches.<br \/>\nSad to be a child<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in a copse where dream eludes<br \/>\nthe anxious reach that clutches.<br \/>\nBranches never grasp the clouds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">just encompass solitude<br \/>\nuntil someone approaches.<br \/>\nSad to be a child.<br \/>\nBranches never grasp the clouds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Notionally a French poetic form, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villanelle\">villanelle<\/a> has been thoroughly nativized into English. Dylan Thomas&#8217;s &#8220;Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night&#8221;, Theodore Roethke&#8217;s &#8220;The Waking&#8221; and Elizabeth Bishop&#8217;s &#8220;One Art&#8221; are among the best known and loved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2965-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3152\" src=\"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2965-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2965-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2965-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the presses, this poem which appears in California Quarterly, Vol 43, Number 3 (2017), p. 45. You can order a copy at www.CaliforniaStatePoetrySociety.org * Sad to be a child. However hard one watches, branches never grasp the clouds, stuff which drifts like moods and slips between the crotches. 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