{"id":280,"date":"2002-09-21T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-21T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2002-09-21T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-21T21:45:00","slug":"when-all-your-hopes-are-ashes-more-poetry-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"When All Your Hopes are Ashes:  More poetry corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When all your hopes are ashes<br \/>\nWhose pyre you watched burn<br \/>\nWhen all your dreams are gone<br \/>\nWhere is it that you turn?<\/p>\n<p>Take up your book of matches<br \/>\nGive us all another urn<br \/>\nExpose the truth about the con<br \/>\nYou can help others learn<\/p>\n<p>When all your hopes are ashes<br \/>\nWhose pyre you watched burn<br \/>\nWhen all your dreams are gone<br \/>\nWhere is it that you turn?<\/p>\n<p>Dole out the bloody lashes<br \/>\nGive them what they earn<br \/>\nYourself the role of Master don<br \/>\nBring Order fierce and stern<\/p>\n<p>When all your hopes are ashes<br \/>\nWhose pyre you watched burn<br \/>\nWhen all your dreams are gone<br \/>\nWhere is it that you turn?<\/p>\n<p>Keep all your broken wishes<br \/>\nPretend to not discern<br \/>\nThink only of the lost anon<br \/>\nNever cease to yearn<\/p>\n<p>When all your hopes are ashes<br \/>\nWhose pyre you watched burn<br \/>\nWhen all your dreams are gone<br \/>\nWhere is it that you turn?<\/p>\n<p>Survey your wounds and gashes<br \/>\nOld ways now overturn<br \/>\nUnveil your eyes to the dawn<br \/>\nLet true hope return<\/p>\n<p>-Stephen C. Ulrich jr.  (with assistance from rhymemaster, <lj user=radi0actv>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When all your hopes are ashes Whose pyre you watched burn When all your dreams are gone Where is it that you turn? Take up your book of matches Give us all another urn Expose the truth about the con You can help others learn When all your hopes are ashes Whose pyre you watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When All Your Hopes are Ashes:  More poetry corner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}