{"id":1916,"date":"2015-09-22T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2015-09-22T07:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T12:47:36","slug":"poem-uncollecting-notions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/poem-uncollecting-notions\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Uncollecting Notions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She collected<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dangerous notions<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Putting them on<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A shelf like<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sew many trinkets<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Going know where<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is about living on the edge, the fringes, the margins &#8212; which are populated with dangerous prospects.\u00a0 This poem is about being centered and confident enough to boldly go where you may have never gone before.\u00a0 This poem is about experimenting with your life to truly be the change you want to see in the world, rather than mirrorly dress oneself up with others&#8217; logos like some NASCAR driver for a sellout crowd.\u00a0 This poem is about a willingness to make mistakes in order to learn and unlearn what we need to be a better person, to embrace imperfection on the messy road to our ideals.\u00a0 This poem challenges the conventional wisdom of being collected and going know where.\u00a0 This poem points out the inanity of safe, superficial living, or so-called living.\u00a0 This poem is more about being than being branded &#8212; living life in that vast expanse between having a cow and having a sacred cow.\u00a0 May you find your way for just today, and wake up, fresh, for anew tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She collected Dangerous notions Putting them on A shelf like Sew many trinkets Going know where This poem is about living on the edge, the fringes, the margins &#8212; which are populated with dangerous prospects.\u00a0 This poem is about being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/poem-uncollecting-notions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9,15],"tags":[397,229,618,359,658,94,128,53,575,549,389],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-change","tag-conventional-wisdom","tag-ideals","tag-life","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-sacred","tag-short-poems","tag-superficial","tag-willingness","tag-wisdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Uncollecting Notions | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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