{"id":12949,"date":"2012-04-10T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2012-04-09T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:15:59","slug":"tuesday-poem-the-trojan-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/tuesday-poem-the-trojan-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “The Trojan Shore”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ithaca Conversations:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Trojan Shore<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tonight, the wind blows bitter
\nfrom the stony heights
\nbeyond the city, gusts
\nat the thousand cook-fires,
\nlifts dust and grit from the plain,
\ndriving through tent flaps
\nand into eyes, rank
\nwith the stench of a siege camp \u2013
\ncombined sweat, wounds and excrement
\nassault every sense, beat at him
\nwhere he stands apart,
\none more shadow on the beach,
\none hand pushed hard
\nagainst his black prowed ship
\nwhile his eyes strain towards
\nthe long horizon, strive
\nto see beyond it to the forsaken wife
\nand unknown child, to the island
\nhidden behind rising wind and wave \u2013
\nlost, all lost now, abandoned
\nfor barren conflict
\nalong the Trojan shore.<\/p>\n

(c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

Published in JAAM 2008<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Currently, we in the Tuesday Poem community are celebrating our second birthday with an evolving poem on the topic of “the sounds of\u00a0 a birthday.”<\/p>\n

You can check out the work in progress on the Tuesday Poem hub, here<\/a>—as well as the Tuesday poem on each individual poet’s site via the side bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ithaca Conversations: The Trojan Shore Tonight, the wind blows bitter from the stony heights beyond the city, gusts at the thousand cook-fires, lifts dust and grit from the plain, driving through tent flaps and into eyes, rank with the stench of a siege camp \u2013 combined sweat, wounds and excrement assault every sense, beat at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12949"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12969,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions\/12969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}