{"id":250,"date":"2014-01-30T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:42:57","slug":"leaves-painted-gold-to-please-a-child-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?page_id=250","title":{"rendered":"Leaves Painted Gold to Please a Child, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Taken from the cover note)<br \/>\n<em> The poems in this book are mainly autobiographical, personal and intimate, with an emphasis on spiritual growth. He oftens adds to this his own blend of humorous observation&#8230; His aim is to provide a western Buddhist&#8217;s colourful spectrum of experience, feeling and vision in language open to a broad public.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>See Marcus reading two poems from this book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/openbarebibliotheekbrugge\/sets\/72157616910620236\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/leaves.jpg\" alt=\"leaves\" width=\"200\" height=\"288\" \/>an extract from<br \/>\nPRISON STREET<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The universe has an infinite number of centres<br \/>\nand I am one of them&#8221; <\/i>&#8211; Roger Green<\/p>\n<p>I discover, as though for the first time,<br \/>\nThe basic pleasure of existence,<br \/>\nThe total freedom from time and weight.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself walking to the butcher&#8217;s<br \/>\nLight-heartedly, nothing much in my head.<\/p>\n<p>My shoes tread the cobblestones airily.<br \/>\nI notice my surroundings, and approve.<br \/>\nThat dingy cafe is a restaurant now.<\/p>\n<p>Might all of us be tourists in a city<br \/>\nThat needs no psychiatric hospital?<\/p>\n<p>Some more fortunate people may experience<br \/>\n&#8220;The unbearable lightness of being&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An exciting champagne feeling<br \/>\nWhich puts them on top of the world<br \/>\nAnd makes them want to kick their shoes off.<\/p>\n<p>This manic-depressive, however, gets<br \/>\nOne hell of a thrill from &#8220;normality&#8221;<br \/>\n(I&#8217;ve put the word in inverted commas) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Just being the right man in the right place,<br \/>\nDoing his thing while harming nobody,<br \/>\nAn ambulant microdot called Marcus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Taken from the cover note) The poems in this book are mainly autobiographical, personal and intimate, with an emphasis on [&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-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}