{"id":1681,"date":"2013-06-04T03:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:23:14","slug":"at-the-party-by-darrell-lindsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/at-the-party-by-darrell-lindsey\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Party by Darrell Lindsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1272 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sky.jpg\" alt=\"sky\" width=\"615\" height=\"367\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sky.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sky-300x179.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 615px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 615\/367;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">At The Party<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Darrell Lindsey<\/p>\n<p>tequila worm faces dabble in Dali.<\/p>\n<p>I depart for deeper woods,<br \/>\ntake matches<br \/>\nto a snoozing clown?<\/p>\n<p>watch moonbeams become the vortex of a raw swarm.<\/p>\n<p>I must wait for pesky dawn roulette angels<br \/>\nto spin into black pockets,<\/p>\n<p>try to hold these blurred poses of planet plentiful<br \/>\nas the sound of seventh son&#8217;s tambourine<br \/>\ndrifts from the hysterical sea<\/p>\n<p>where Van Gogh&#8217;s ear is a conch shell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nDarrell Lindsey is a freelance writer\/ poet\/songwriter from Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas. He is the author of Edge Of The Pond ( Popcorn Press, 2012), and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007. His haiku and tanka have won awards in the United States, Japan, Croatia, Bulgaria, Canada, Romania, and Poland. On the speculative poetry front, he won the 2012 Science Fiction Poetry Association Poetry Contest ( Long Form category) for his poem, &#8221; The Fugitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tequila worm faces dabble in Dali.<\/p>\n<p>I depart for deeper woods,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moon-poem","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}