{"id":1076,"date":"2017-12-31T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:36:36","slug":"poem-of-the-month-january-2018-leaving-for-dusseldorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, January 2018: Leaving for D\u00fcsseldorf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEAVING FOR DUSSELDORF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will miss you, dear Maria<br \/>\non this little German trip<br \/>\nand hope your precious ankle<br \/>\nstays firm and doesn&#8217;t slip.<\/p>\n<p>These are days of dreary darkness<br \/>\nand nights of pouring rain<br \/>\nwhen Catalonia&#8217;s President<br \/>\nmust long to be in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>I gaze around the parlour<br \/>\nof our cosy little home<br \/>\nand see your Soul in alles &#8211;<br \/>\nI put you in my Pome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everything always changes&#8217;<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the standard Buddhist view.<br \/>\nBut even though I go away<br \/>\nI still am true to You.<\/p>\n<p>You sometimes &#8216;nag&#8217; little,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re not twenty any more.<br \/>\nYet you have a shapely figure<br \/>\nand your cooking I adore.<\/p>\n<p>AMEN.<br \/>\n(Ah! Men!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEAVING FOR DUSSELDORF I will miss you, dear Maria on this little German trip and hope your precious ankle stays [&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-1076","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\/1076","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=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}