{"id":2284,"date":"2020-08-23T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2020-07-19T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:30:16","slug":"a-plea-and-a-thought-by-gad-kaynar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2020\/08\/23\/a-plea-and-a-thought-by-gad-kaynar\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Plea&#8221; and &#8220;A Thought&#8221; by Gad Kaynar-Kissinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Translated by Natalie Feinstein<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>A Plea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I plead my immense fatigue to subdue<br>Me like the dragon beseeching Saint George<br>To grow from his fertilized, defeated body a kingdom on the banks<br>Of the Lethe River and graceful oblivion models will trot beside it<br>Adorning a wreath of witless smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>A Thought<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a thought plummets at my feet<br>Bruised<br>I bandage its wings<br>Which I clipped<br>Until it revisits me<br>In faltering<br>Flight.<br>I then shoot it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Gad Kaynar-Kissinger (70) is a retired Associate Professor from the Theater Department at Tel Aviv University. His poetry was published in major Israeli literary periodicals and supplements, and compiled in seven books, including a bi-lingual Hebrew-Spanish publication Lo que queda (What Remains). For ADHD he won &#8220;The General Israeli Writers&#8217; Union&#8221; Award (2010). Kaynar is a stage, TV and film actor, and translator of 70 plays from English, German, Norwegian and Swedish. For his Ibsen translations he was designated in 2009 by the Norwegian King as \u201cKnight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated by Natalie Feinstein A Plea I plead my immense fatigue to subdueMe like the dragon beseeching Saint GeorgeTo grow from his fertilized, defeated body a kingdom on the banksOf the Lethe River and graceful oblivion models will trot beside itAdorning a wreath of witless smiles. A Thought When a thought plummets at my feetBruisedI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2020\/08\/23\/a-plea-and-a-thought-by-gad-kaynar\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-AQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}