{"id":166,"date":"2006-05-24T23:15:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/24\/theatre-2\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:06:48","slug":"theatre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/24\/theatre-2\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>an episodically published poem<br \/>\nlink to <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/22\/theatre\/\">beginning <\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/23\/frustrations-of-a-blogging-poet\/\">previous<\/a><br \/>\n| next<\/p>\n<p><em>Ego commoror anima Calliopeae<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>retreat<br \/>\nput pen to paper<!--more--><br \/>\nfingers to keyboard<br \/>\ncollaborate with muses<br \/>\ncreate a world<br \/>\ngift it with air water fire<br \/>\ndivide day from night<br \/>\ncolour it beautiful blue<br \/>\nwith hints of white clouds<br \/>\ntans greens a moon to protect it<br \/>\nopen the day with light<br \/>\nclose it with dark<br \/>\nintroduce creatures<br \/>\ncall them male and female<br \/>\nand offer them temptation<\/p>\n<p>consider the great questions<br \/>\nwhy will someone hate kill<br \/>\nsteal covet lie help love give<br \/>\ngive a a boy bean and steal it from him<br \/>\ngive a woman a talent and use her<\/p>\n<p>how can you create<br \/>\nsuch suffering as Lear&#8217;s<br \/>\nhow can a playwright<br \/>\nlove a character enough<br \/>\nmake him worthy enough<br \/>\nthat his death is meaningful<\/p>\n<p>great comedy arises from<br \/>\ngreat sorrow arises from<br \/>\ngreat joy arises from great<br \/>\nrelief from great drama<br \/>\narises from great wisdom<br \/>\nHow to write great anything<\/p>\n<p>when the page is blank<br \/>\nthe screen is blank<br \/>\nwhy<br \/>\nask a Muse<br \/>\nin a museum<br \/>\nfor amusement<\/p>\n<p>the playwright like any writer<br \/>\nbuilds on the known<br \/>\ndigs into mythology<br \/>\nfor the root stories<br \/>\nthat say who we are<br \/>\nand that is what<br \/>\nthe playwright does<br \/>\nhe tells us who we are<br \/>\nin effect creates us<\/p>\n<p>divide day from night<br \/>\ncolour it beautiful blue<br \/>\nwith hints of white clouds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning | previous | next Ego commoror anima Calliopeae retreat put pen to paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}