{"id":2172,"date":"2014-03-07T00:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:03:15","slug":"i-sleep-on-futon-by-hirotoshi-kimura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/i-sleep-on-futon-by-hirotoshi-kimura\/","title":{"rendered":"I sleep on futon by Hirotoshi Kimura"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2174\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/js.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2174 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/js.jpg\" alt=\"Reading at a Cafe Hawelka by Jonelle Summerfield\" width=\"559\" height=\"443\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/js.jpg 932w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/js-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/js-624x494.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 559px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 559\/443;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading at a Cafe Hawelka by Jonelle Summerfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I sleep on futon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Hirotoshi Kimura<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine falling<br \/>\nSweet grass swaying<br \/>\nI sleep on futon<\/p>\n<p>Now raindrops falling<br \/>\nA lively chorus creating<br \/>\nI sleep on futon<\/p>\n<p>A mauve silken cloth overspreading<br \/>\nA blanket of crisp air waving<br \/>\nI sleep on futon<\/p>\n<p>Broad heaven darkling<br \/>\nCrickets chirping<br \/>\nI sleep on futon<\/p>\n<p>Pecking sounds heard<br \/>\nA moment light as fur<br \/>\nI pretend to sleep still<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Hirotoshi Kimura is a Japanese poet. Almost drowned in the creative struggles of past poets and every once in a while delightfully buoyed by their densely condensed poetic and literary energies, my life is devoted to reading and literary creation. My credo is &#8220;From the beautiful springs the mundane, from the mundane springs the beautiful, from a delicate mixture of the two, a divine spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hirotoshi Kimura is a Japanese poet. Almost drowned in the creative struggles of past poets and every once in a while delightfully buoyed by their densely condensed poetic and literary energies,<\/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":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","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=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}