{"id":18251,"date":"2025-10-30T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18251"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:26:02","slug":"poem-vitruvian-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/poem-vitruvian-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Vitruvian Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vitruvian Woman<br \/>\n<\/strong>For Laura<br \/>\n<em>A Poem for Halloween<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Svelte limbs, aquiline and flow, her enjambment;<br \/>\nThe whole pelvic girdle hypnotically balances,<br \/>\nFamously compared to a serpent which dances,<br \/>\nAnd which has all full-blooded heterosexual males entranced&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>And, there you have it! The Feminists declare,<br \/>\n\u201cNo more male gazing here!\u201d<br \/>\nWhere are we? How did we get here?<br \/>\nWhatever happened to <em>coup de foudre<\/em>, <em>colpo di fulmine<\/em> ?<\/p>\n<p>It was a Friday night, I had been sitting, drinking with colleagues,<br \/>\nWhen you entered the public bar dressed in your finery;<br \/>\nThe cream- coloured micro-skirt, the flesh coloured tights,<\/p>\n<p>The pliant leather of your black knee high boots!&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Colpo di fulmine<\/em>!&#8230; my ass jumped off the bench, reflexively!<br \/>\nWe have known each other now for 25 Halloweens.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"Text_text__D8yqX Text_size-h18__X4U_J Text_color-midnight2C343E__iCo4Q spacing_noMargin__F5u9R Text_ellipsis__qoQrF\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/spooky-jack-o-lantern-on-halloween-night-34487911\/\"><em>Feature Image: Norbert Szomsz\u00e9d<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vitruvian Woman For Laura A Poem for Halloween Svelte limbs, aquiline and flow, her enjambment; The whole pelvic girdle hypnotically balances, Famously compared to a serpent which dances, And which has all full-blooded heterosexual males entranced&#8230;! And, there you have it! The Feminists declare, \u201cNo more male gazing here!\u201d Where are we? How did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":18260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[255,1449,7159,7169,7320,7341,9869,9884,10167],"class_list":["post-18251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-poem-for-halloween","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-peter-oneill-poet","tag-peter-oneill","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-virtruvian-woman","tag-vitruvian","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}