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Each nightly vision swirls about my head, as I sleepwalk through my days,<\/span><\/p>\n mumbling through greetings and conversations, looking for some spark to ignite <\/span><\/p>\n and energize, to slap me awake from this weariness that seems to bewilder me so. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yet, I\u2019m hopeless to express in so many words my quest for an original idea<\/span><\/p>\n and the strength to get it on paper. A few striking words, strung together: <\/span><\/p>\n one sentence to tell all. I need to begin with one sentence <\/span><\/p>\n to capture and slay those visions and deliver me from this inertia. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s the challenge, as big as a mountain before me, the challenge <\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to talk about. I\u2019d rather write and leave the talking to others.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d rather scratch out another poem and explore those crevices of my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n stretch and contort my thinking to, in someway, free me from my sentence.\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n — Chris George<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (A few years back I wrote 10 poems that are compiled under the title: Almonte and the summer of 2013 that was<\/em>.\u00a0 This poem first appeared in that compilation and later also found its way into Midstep: a dozen poems towards where I want to be<\/em>. <\/span>If you are interested in receiving either or both of these compilations, connect with me \u2013 chrisg.george@gmail.com \u2013 and provide your e-mail.)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each nightly vision swirls about my head, as I sleepwalk through my days, mumbling through greetings and conversations, looking for some spark to ignite and energize, to slap me awake from this weariness that seems to bewilder me so. \u00a0 Yet, I\u2019m hopeless to express in so many words my quest for an original idea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10842,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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