{"id":265104,"date":"2017-11-24T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265104"},"modified":"2017-11-24T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T20:00:53","slug":"series-selfie-sonnets-part-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/series-selfie-sonnets-part-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A series of selfie sonnets: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201c My soul is rescued from the love of these trifles\u2026\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Senior Citizen Selfie<\/strong><br \/>\nA third rate poets selfie becomes blunt \u201csi quid mea carmina possunt\u201d \u2018if my songs are of any avail\u2019\u2014Aeneid of Virgil<\/p>\n<p>as snow grows on my head and face<br \/>\nI turn my eyes upward pondering space<br \/>\nmy pleasures are many and many I have<br \/>\nenough to go with me till I enter my grave<br \/>\nbeer whiskey and wine with relish I taste<br \/>\nand nary a drop of it do I spill or waste<br \/>\nif they are unavailable on music I can live<br \/>\nfor all the inspiration and delight that it gives.<br \/>\nin my nights the Milky Way galaxy is displayed<br \/>\nwhat a wonderful sight when meteors invade.<br \/>\nin the hot tropic sun skin cancers are made<br \/>\nin my retirement I tend to seek out the shade.<\/p>\n<p><em>(on Tinian, Wednesday, November 8, 2017)<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Senior Selfie: Bats in my Belfry<\/strong><br \/>\nChimes and bells for heaven and hells of freedom<br \/>\nringing out around the world oceans todo globo<br \/>\ndeaf governments need hearing aids to hear them<br \/>\nsympatico sounds from followers of Quasimodo<br \/>\nmany bats fly in the sky every evening at sunset<br \/>\ncoming to their home above the church to roost<br \/>\ntheir fresh guano droppings give gardens a boost<br \/>\nrabies found among some bats strike terror in<br \/>\nmany people while these little mammals who<br \/>\npretend to be birds warm other bat fans hearts<br \/>\nunderneath bridges and overpasses, railroad<br \/>\ntrestles and in barns the bats across America<br \/>\nby the millions settle upside down and nestle<br \/>\nwhile I a bit crazy upstairs with wisdom wrestle.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Where is Narcissism Bred<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u2014inspired by Bassiano\u2019s song, \u201cTell Me Where is Fancy Bred\u201d in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDo tell please where is narcissism bred<br \/>\nis it in broken hearts or an egotistic head<br \/>\nhow did it start and how is it nourished<br \/>\nreply reply please give us some replies<br \/>\nfrom mental mirrors in through the eyes<br \/>\ninto a swelled head as no real surprise<br \/>\nanswers answers some different answers<br \/>\nboiling in the blood a conceit filled cancer<br \/>\nsolidified in golden glory by a gilded glancer<br \/>\nmore more we would like to hear some more<br \/>\nnarcissism is a nascent self revolving door<br \/>\ngoing round and round as the self sees more<br \/>\nwhen somewhat satisfied looking at themself<br \/>\nnarcissists trophies go high on their selfish shelf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c My soul is rescued from the love of these trifles\u2026\u201d \u2014Anne Finch, Countess of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19191,19192,67,5784],"class_list":["post-265104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-anne-finch","tag-narcissism-bred","tag-people","tag-william-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265104","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}