{"id":2875,"date":"2014-04-18T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2014-05-06T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:10:22","slug":"poem-a-day-contest-april-18-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"Poem a Day contest April 18, 2014 – I won!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update, 5.6.2014\u00a0 I am a winner!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Judy,<\/em><\/p>\n

Congratulations! Because your entry was one of the most voted on, you are a winner of the Knopf “Poetry Month Portray Your Love of Poetry” contest. Please reply to this email with your confirmed mailing address, and you\u2019ll receive your prize of new poetry books from Knopf in the next week. Thanks so much for participating! We hope you enjoyed Poetry Month, and we look forward to April 2015 <\/em><\/p>\n

I have entered another contest — you can vote for me on the Knopf Facebook page in the link below \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

PORTRAY YOUR LOVE OF POETRY CONTEST<\/b>
\nThis April, we invite poetry fans to submit a photo, drawing, or other visual representation of poems that inspire them. The contest will be held on the Knopf Facebook page.<\/a>\u00a0The five people whose submissions get the most votes at the end of April will each receive a package of new poetry books from Knopf. Feel free to choose more than one poem and submit up to one entry per day!<\/p>\n

Here is my entry:<\/p>\n

I painted this water color miniature in Florence Italy in 2003, framed with Italian art paper. It illustrates the poem, \u201cFlorence, Italy\u201d by Watie W. Swanzy that describes the love and obsession of travelers to that beautiful place. I most certainly was one who experienced the \u201cStendahl or Florence Syndrome,\u201d <\/b>described <\/b>as a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.<\/p>\n

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Florence, Italy<\/b><\/p>\n

Watie W. Swanzy<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oh, well I love thee, Florence! All thy towers
\nAs seen from Colli’s height are nought to me
\nBut bright minarets of enchanted bowers,
\nTruly love and beauty reign over thee.
\nThy gentle people, whose mild, dark eyes beam
\nEvery kindly on the stranger within
\nThy gates, are lovers of beauty, and such
\nSweet, child-like ways possess, fear not the truth
\nTo speak. Thy love of innocent sport well
\nWe know. Have we not seen thy flow’ry day
\nOf carnival, when the perfumed missiles fly,
\nUntil, from St. Mineato’s height, sounds
\nThe curfew that warns of approaching night.
\nWhatever of evil thy dukes have wrought
\nIs mended somewhat by their love of art;
\nFor where they saw true genius struggling forth
\nThey gave a helping hand, and so have left
\nWithin thy walls treasures of ancient lore;
\nAlong thy streets, on pedestal, in niche,
\nOr beneath the fountain’s fast-falling spray,
\nMonuments sublime. But the most I prize
\nThy long-arched corridors, where Angelo
\nAnd Raphael do speak to us by saints
\nAnd angels, and Mary, mother of God,
\nUpon whose brow purity sits enthroned<\/p>\n

So did those delineators old seek
\nTrue inspiration from the Holy Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update, 5.6.2014\u00a0 I am a winner! Dear Judy, Congratulations! Because your entry was one of the most voted on, you are a winner of the Knopf “Poetry Month Portray Your Love of Poetry” contest. Please reply to this email with your confirmed mailing address, and you\u2019ll receive your prize of new poetry books from Knopf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}