{"id":513,"date":"2007-02-09T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=513"},"modified":"2007-02-09T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:08:50","slug":"poetry-friday-valentine-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Valentine Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Valentine’s Day from Team 7ITBB! We’re celebrating early with one of the most excellent, unsentimental love poems ever, “Falling In Love is Like Owning a Dog”<\/strong><\/a> by Taylor Mali<\/strong><\/a>. Posing as muse is Gus, who belongs to Eisha’s sister. Who’s a good boy? Hmm? Is it Gus? YesHeIs! Ooh, SuchAGoodBoy!!! You’reSuchASweetie! OOF! Okay, Gus, that’s enough. No! NO!! Down, boy! Okay… okay. Good boy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the poem:<\/p>\n

First of all, it’s a big responsibility,
\nespecially in a city like New York.
\nSo think long and hard before deciding on love.
\nOn the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
\nwhen you’re walking down the street late at night
\nand you have a leash on love
\nain’t no one going to mess with you.
\nBecause crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.
\nWho knows what love could do in its own defense? <\/p>\n

On cold winter nights, love is warm.
\nIt lies between you and lives and breathes
\nand makes funny noises.
\nLove wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.
\nIt needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.<\/p>\n

Love doesn’t like being left alone for long.
\nBut come home and love is always happy to see you.
\nIt may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
\nbut you can never be mad at love for long. <\/p>\n

Is love good all the time? No! No!
\nLove can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/strong><\/a>. You can also find an edited version in Caroline Kennedy’s anthology A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Hyperon, 2005), illustrated by Jon J. Muth. Happy Valentine’s Day!<\/p>\n

{And visit her<\/a><\/strong>e at The Blue Rose Girls’<\/a><\/strong> site for today’s Poetry Friday round-up} . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Valentine’s Day from Team 7ITBB! We’re celebrating early with one of the most excellent, unsentimental love poems ever, “Falling In Love is Like Owning a Dog” by Taylor Mali. Posing as muse is Gus, who belongs to Eisha’s sister. Who’s a good boy? Hmm? Is it Gus? YesHeIs! Ooh, SuchAGoodBoy!!! You’reSuchASweetie! OOF! Okay, Gus, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}