{"id":246,"date":"2014-01-30T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:57:07","slug":"the-white-lady-a-poetic-patchwork-2006","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?page_id=246","title":{"rendered":"The White Lady, a poetic patchwork, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Taken from the cover note)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Passionately, humorously, with deep commitment to human and spiritual values, Marcus Cumberlege now offers us his most versatile collection to date. Apart from the usual poetic themes of life and death, pain and joy, love and advancing age, he handles his own alcoholism and manic-depression with refreshing honesty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;His innocence makes lyrical even the nasty.&#8217; Frederick Grubb, Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-93 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/whitelady-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"whitelady\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/whitelady-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/whitelady.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>TO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Woman, to what shall I compare you?<br \/>\nAnd how shall I capture you with words?<br \/>\nYour face is as fresh as a spring morning,<br \/>\nYour breasts have the warmth of brooding birds.<\/p>\n<p>You have the ringing laughter of April<br \/>\nAnd all the green innocence of May.<br \/>\nYour promise endures for a lifetime<br \/>\nBut theirs only lasts for a day.<\/p>\n<p>Could anything be softer than your skin,<br \/>\nAnything more heavenly than your eyes<br \/>\nWhen you look at me for the first time<br \/>\nIn a flurry of mutual surprise?<\/p>\n<p>In the solitude of my garden<br \/>\nWhere the pink rhododendrons flower<br \/>\nI sit at a table and dream of you,<br \/>\nPutting time out of mind for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>You are in the rosemary and lavender,<br \/>\nYou are all around me in the air.<br \/>\nI bravely declare that I love you<br \/>\nAnd you listen &#8211; but don&#8217;t really care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Taken from the cover note) Passionately, humorously, with deep commitment to human and spiritual values, Marcus Cumberlege now offers us [&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-246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}