{"id":228,"date":"2014-01-30T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2019-07-09T21:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T21:19:56","slug":"the-best-is-yet-to-be-1997","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?page_id=228","title":{"rendered":"The Best Is Yet To Be, 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Taken from the cover note)<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The 125 poems in this collection, the sequel to Things I Cannot Change (1993) were written between 1989 and 1997. They are all three stanza poems, relying less frequently upon the use of rhyme&#8230; the Brugean poet writes with feeling about the men and women who are close to him, and the eternal Buddha in whom he takes his refuge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The front cover is by <a href=\"http:\/\/tarrdeblaere.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Horst De Blaere<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P8094025c-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"P8094025c\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P8094025c-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P8094025c.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>MIKE<\/p>\n<p><em>(d. Sachsenhausen, 1945)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because I had no father<br \/>\nI could turn to in distress<br \/>\nMy moral education<br \/>\nWas a bloody awful mess.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, I read the Bible,<br \/>\nKnew who begat who, and how,<br \/>\nBut all that hocus-pocus<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t help me here and now.<\/p>\n<p>Who were you really, Michael?<br \/>\nAre you still but thirty-nine?<br \/>\nWould you be sorry to hear<br \/>\nI never drink beer or wine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Taken from the cover note) The 125 poems in this collection, the sequel to Things I Cannot Change (1993) were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}