{"id":5349,"date":"2020-11-13T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:09:07","slug":"the-poems-of-mao-tsetung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/the-poems-of-mao-tsetung\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poems of Mao Tsetung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked a book of your poems up<\/p>\n<p>Deep in a second-hand bookshop<\/p>\n<p>Your poems are written in Classical Chinese Verse Forms<\/p>\n<p>I am not a scholar so accept this fact blindly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has been stormy recently<\/p>\n<p>But today is fine and I am sitting beachside<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying a morning coffee<\/p>\n<p>Yet my book of poems troubles me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Was the man who wrote these poems<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for the deaths of millions of his countrymen<\/p>\n<p>It is sobering reflection<\/p>\n<p>That I have not fully resolved<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The roc wing fanwise<\/p>\n<p>Soaring ninety thousand li<\/p>\n<p>Are the opening lines<\/p>\n<p>Of a poem written in 1965<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think that I understand this poem<\/p>\n<p>But I am being distracted<\/p>\n<p>By a seagull hovering over the sea<\/p>\n<p>I may be mistaken but I am sure that it has been watching me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked a book of your poems up Deep in a second-hand bookshop Your poems are written in Classical Chinese Verse Forms I am not a scholar so accept this fact blindly &nbsp; It has been stormy recently But today is fine and I am sitting beachside Enjoying a morning coffee Yet my book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349"}],"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=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}