{"id":659,"date":"2006-10-24T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/24\/the-unquiet-sky\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T18:08:47","slug":"the-unquiet-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/24\/the-unquiet-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unquiet Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/cloud-iridescence.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud iridescence in a Tucson, Arizona thunderstorm\" title=\"Cloud iridescence in a Tucson, Arizona thunderstorm\" width=\"400\" height=\"585\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>The Unquiet Sky<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I had come from the clouds<br \/>\nLike a black and wintry river,<br \/>\nRain all day.<br \/>\nMagic within the dark air,<br \/>\nThe impending shadow,<br \/>\nStronger in the end than any evil,<br \/>\nSooner than Hell overturn.<br \/>\nAnd yet I fear I may be overpowered<br \/>\nLike a disturbed ghost.<br \/>\nA dark cloud,<br \/>\nLowering and compelling black,<br \/>\nTossed upon the wind and so overcome,<br \/>\nRestored the sunshine,<br \/>\nThe unearthly light overhead,<br \/>\nAnd brought with it my parting.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I created this poem from the combined sentence fragments of spam emails, many of which have used text from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">old, classic, public domain books<\/a>. For some reason, I find the weird, random sentence fragments found in spam (meant to trick email filters) <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/12\/spam-poetry\/\">oddly creatively inspiring<\/a>. The above sky photo is of short-lived cloud iridescence in the midst of monsoon thunderstorms here in Tucson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unquiet Sky I had come from the clouds Like a black and wintry river, Rain all day. Magic within the dark air, The impending shadow, Stronger in the end than any evil, Sooner than Hell overturn. And yet I fear I may be overpowered Like a disturbed ghost. A dark cloud, Lowering and compelling&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/24\/the-unquiet-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-music-photography-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}