{"id":1902,"date":"2007-04-04T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/04\/04\/poetry-for-men\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:37","slug":"poetry-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/04\/04\/poetry-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry For Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like many men, I&#8217;m also more &#8220;practical&#8221; than my wife. It took me years to understand why a woman would want to get flowers. After all, they just die in a few days. Wouldn&#8217;t a blender be a better Valentine&#8217;s Day gift? Like flowers, poetry isn&#8217;t always meant to be practical, and this is sometimes hard for me to &#8220;get.&#8221; Sometimes there isn&#8217;t even a &#8220;point&#8221; to a poem other than it being an expression of emotion. I&#8217;m always looking for &#8220;meaning,&#8221; rather than taking the emotion in. The words, the image provoked or the music of the poem should be just enough to make a piece of writing special.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m learning to appreciate poetry more by reading poems, including many of the poems I see here on Poetry Thursday. It is good to be reminded that not all poems are about flowers or &#8220;girly&#8221; things, or topics that make you go out and buy a black beret. You can write poems about baseball games and pissing in the forest, and it can still be considered a poem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Neil Kramer, <a href=\"http:\/\/poetrythursday.org\/2007\/03\/27\/confessions-of-a-poemphobe-%e2%80%94-poetry-for-men\/\">Confessions of a Poemphobe: Poetry for Men<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many men, I&#8217;m also more &#8220;practical&#8221; than my wife. It took me years to understand why a woman would want to get flowers. After all, they just die in a few days. Wouldn&#8217;t a blender be a better Valentine&#8217;s Day gift? Like flowers, poetry isn&#8217;t always meant to be practical, and this is sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12187,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/12187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}