{"id":12354,"date":"2026-04-26T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:43:13","slug":"poems-i-shall-never-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12354","title":{"rendered":"Poems I shall never write"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0482-669x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0482-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0482-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0482-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0482.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another satirical poem from Brian Bilston made me think of all the poems I haven\u2019t written partly because, as l have said before, I don\u2019t write poetry and partly because l share a similar dislike for many of the topics listed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if I am to set aside my goal of only positives in what remains of my life, I could indulge myself by listing a few negatives in the form of \u201cnever to be written\u201d poem titles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Ode to a perfume call \u201cBare Shoulders\u201d or why are you wearing only half of your blouse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Blue Jean Tragedy on the faux poor or \u201cbuddy could you spare a million, I need to mend these jeans I purposely mutilated to look needy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. I\u2019m sorry I can\u2019t save your life. I can\u2019t find an injection spot anywhere on your body which is covered in tattoos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly I don\u2019t admire current fashion trends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure there are more poems that I will never write but that\u2019s enough negativity for now. So I will have to live Brian\u2019s poem in the deep recesses of my brain and pretend to be positive or at least ignore all fashion that irritates me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0467-778x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0467-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0467-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0467-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0467.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A fashion I could live with <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If I could live my life in fabric, it would be patchwork &#8211; bits and pieces sewn together in artistically random placements to create an interesting, if not completely organized, life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"967\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0775-1-967x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0775-1-967x1024.jpg 967w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0775-1-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0775-1-768x813.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0775-1-1451x1536.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0775-1.jpg 1889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Patched together and embellished <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Poems of patchwork &#8211; the story of my life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another satirical poem from Brian Bilston made me think of all the poems I haven\u2019t written partly because, as l have said before, I don\u2019t write poetry and partly because l share a similar dislike for many of the topics listed. So if I am to set aside my goal of only positives in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12361,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}