{"id":4584,"date":"2020-09-29T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:27:06","slug":"poets-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/poets-obscurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets &#038; Obscurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-a:r2947342402164933527\" data-legacy-message-id=\"1715161a3fda3a24\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":1p6\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":1p7\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Tired and not yet sixty he died in total obscurity<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But poets never really die in obscurity<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As their poems are always retained somewhere<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whether it be on a scrap of paper or in a scruffy book<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They survive like unwanted graffiti on the damp walls of a latrine<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have found them as rhymes within rhymes hidden in popular songs<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And have witnessed their theatre amongst the neon lights of great cities<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Poets never die in obscurity and only now do I really understand the reasons why<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\">\n<div class=\"gB xu\">\n<div class=\"ip iq\">\n<div id=\":1p5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired and not yet sixty he died in total obscurity But poets never really die in obscurity As their poems are always retained somewhere Whether it be on a scrap of paper or in a scruffy book They survive like unwanted graffiti on the damp walls of a latrine I have found them as rhymes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}