{"id":2653,"date":"2014-10-06T00:56:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:56:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:56:25","slug":"buoy-st-margarets-hope-j-r-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/buoy-st-margarets-hope-j-r-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buoy at St. Margaret\u2019s Hope by J.R. West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jr-west.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2654 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jr-west.jpg\" alt=\"jr west\" width=\"515\" height=\"293\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jr-west.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jr-west-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jr-west-624x354.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 515px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 515\/293;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Buoy at St. Margaret\u2019s Hope <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by J.R. West<\/p>\n<p><em>All Gone! All Gone!<\/em><br \/>\nIn the tide of what\u2019s coming<br \/>\nThe past wears its barnacled mess<br \/>\nBoats of solid purpose and condition<br \/>\nSink here with dispassionate chorus.<br \/>\n<em>All Gone! All Gone!<\/em><br \/>\nWhat memory the ocean must have<br \/>\nSo few to escape, to walk upon it<br \/>\nUs amongst the savage of the tide<br \/>\nNever ending, or so we thought.<br \/>\n<em>All Gone! All Gone!<\/em><br \/>\nWhat good is this bell buoy<br \/>\nWhen its words take hold?<br \/>\nOur ocean licking its lips<br \/>\nIn the tide of what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>J.R. West is 30 years old, born and raised in rural Maine. Since graduating with an English degree and running the University of Utah\u2019s undergraduate literary journal Enormous Rooms, he\u2019s been employed as a technical writer for an infamous electronics company. His literary influences range from Naturalism to surrealism, existentialists, beat poets\u2014especially Gary Snyder, and for good measure Yeats and Rumi. They\u2019re all fighting it out upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Living in Austin, TX for the last 6 years, he\u2019s learned that extreme summer heat is a writer\u2019s best friend, and air conditioning the muse of this modern age and place. When he\u2019s not traveling for outdoor pursuits, he\u2019s writing poetry, technobabble, or chewing over the next great fantasy novel. He also loves to collaborate with other writers on comedy skits, screenplays, and writes the odd commissioned article on Austin\u2019s music scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.R. West is 30 years old, born and raised in rural Maine. 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