{"id":1001,"date":"2017-03-02T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:44:18","slug":"poems-of-the-month-march-2017-sparrows-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Poems of the Month, March 2017: Sparrows; Seagulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPARROWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Focus on Other Power,<br \/>\npay less attention to yourself.<br \/>\nBeauty lurks in a corner<br \/>\nof practically all scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Life is like a Spanish lunch.<br \/>\n<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">You don&#8217;t know what you will get<br \/>\n<\/span>until it lands on your plate.<br \/>\nGratitude is its own reward.<\/p>\n<p>I wake up in the morning<br \/>\nfearing what the day has in store.<br \/>\nAnd here I sit at the portside<br \/>\nwith the woman I adore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why don&#8217;t you write a poem<br \/>\nabout the sparrows?\u2019 she asks.<br \/>\nFortune smiles on the wicked.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of her easier tasks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEAGULLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maria is the perfect<br \/>\nwoman for poet<br \/>\nMarcus Cumberlege. *<\/p>\n<p>Alone together<br \/>\nin their tiny apartment,<br \/>\nhibernating gulls,<\/p>\n<p>Perfectly content<br \/>\nto sit here doing nothing<br \/>\nin view of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>* <em>I&#8217;ll give 1001 reasons for this <\/em><em>in another much longer poem<\/em><em> on our return from Spain.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPARROWS Focus on Other Power, pay less attention to yourself. Beauty lurks in a corner of practically all scenarios. Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}