{"id":238690,"date":"2016-10-19T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=238690"},"modified":"2016-10-19T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:06:39","slug":"keats-tweaks-bespeak-trump-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/keats-tweaks-bespeak-trump-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Keats tweaks bespeak Trump leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I took a break from reading Tang Dynasty Chinese poetry to read two of my favorite English poets, William Blake and John Keats. Keats was a Romantic poet known for his odes and wrote poetry from 1814 to 1820. He was born Oct. 31,1795, and died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. Talk about a classic poetic life for a Romantic poet. As I read his sonnets I kept rephrasing the titles with Donald Trump as the topic. I have included the title of Keat\u2019s original sonnet at the end of each so you might see their metamorphosis. In one case I used a complete line of Keats in my sonnet and have put it in quotation marks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>On Shame\u00a0(How Oblivious is the Man\u00a0)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0\u201cwith Trump, what you see is all there is\u201d\u2014Pepe Batbon<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nhow shameful is the man who can not even look<br \/>\nupon his campaign days with temperate blood<br \/>\nwho vexes his own party with gobbledy gook<br \/>\nrobs moderate Conservatives of all that is good<br \/>\nas if all that hear the ears of corn should shuck itself<br \/>\nand hang the green unripened ears in the eaves to dry<br \/>\nas if\u00a0 all those uncast votes would stay up on the shelf<br \/>\nto be gathered and counted as election day draws nigh<br \/>\nthe crude unthinking comments continue day after day<br \/>\nas a myopic nabob of negativity runs his POTUS race<br \/>\npushing the egregious envelope with what he wants to say<br \/>\ngiving angry voters what they want to hear from his face<br \/>\na candidate oblivious or not to this should be so ashamed<br \/>\nof all he has said and cast aspersions on so many he named<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Inspired by John Keats sonnet of 1818 titled: On Shame\u00a0(How Fever\u2019d is the Man) the parentheses are his.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>On seeing Trump lose his marbles<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHave you ever seen how some glass marbles are made<br \/>\nones with spiraling threads of multi colored glass inside<br \/>\nmillefiori glass beads are made in a very similar manner<br \/>\nthey are part of many hot glass workers craft and pride<br \/>\nunfortunately D.T. is losing his brittle mental marbles fast<br \/>\ntucked up underneath those spiraling threads of dyed golden hair<br \/>\nas he gradually insults various aspects of Hillary Clinton\u2019s past<br \/>\nwith tabloid journal sources and more from who knows where<br \/>\nhis marbles are mean spirited, weak and worn from lack of fealty<br \/>\nweigh heavy on the voting public and his angry flock of sheep<br \/>\neach and every gaffe and insult Tweeted left online to keep<br \/>\nannoying his victims regardless of any connection to reality<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s marbles, no steelies, are nothing but his ego under glass<br \/>\nlost underneath hair on his head and show him to be a horse\u2019s ass<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>John Keats sonnet title, \u201c On Seeing the Elgin Marbles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I took a break from reading Tang Dynasty Chinese poetry to read two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13842,13843,13844,13845],"class_list":["post-238690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-style","tag-john-keats","tag-pepe-batbon","tag-potus","tag-tang-dynasty-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}