{"id":3178,"date":"2010-08-28T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2010-08-28T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T21:30:36","slug":"saturday-reading-three-new-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/28\/saturday-reading-three-new-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Reading: Three New Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the temple there.<br \/>\nThe symbol that they stole.<br \/>\nA border thin as hair<br \/>\nBetween Bob Frost&#8217;s two roads.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not here to fight.<br \/>\nWe dance a certain beat.<br \/>\nIncorrigable night<br \/>\nWill glide upon our feet.<\/p>\n<p>The way it crowns is good<br \/>\nHer charms decide it all.<br \/>\nShe guides us to the wood,<br \/>\nAnd bares the fertile wall.<\/p>\n<p>This vision she will keep.<br \/>\nEternal in her sleep.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><br \/>\nSonnet #3<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s something today I want to write<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s someplace today I want to go<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s something today I want to find<br \/>\nThen darling you&#8217;re the one who&#8217;ll let me know.<\/p>\n<p>The fields are calling me to lay and sleep<br \/>\nI love their breeze, how sweetly they are sung<br \/>\nTheir ancient melody sings in my dream<br \/>\nAnd swims in the clear salt of my sea blood.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this life is the only one?<br \/>\nWhy not be free and wish for it the best?<br \/>\nYou wed the world, your child is born to run.<br \/>\nAnd golden eggs are stolen from the nest.<\/p>\n<p>Two trees appear beyond the burning fields<br \/>\nThe frightened deer run up the endless hills.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><br \/>\nSonnet #4<\/p>\n<p>I have returned to say I&#8217;m on a plane.<br \/>\nBecause outside the people want to swim.<br \/>\nThey want to taste the wine made from the rain,<br \/>\nAnd dream of flying through the clouds and wind.<br \/>\nThe ground beneath my soul is moving me<br \/>\nTo places I don&#8217;t even know or&#8217;ve felt.<br \/>\nAbove Hawaii anchors&#8217; songs dive deep<br \/>\nFor those who&#8217;ve left their feet where waves have swelled.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure which route to take tonight.<br \/>\nThe southern sky glows over Chile&#8217;s peaks.<br \/>\nDo transient mysteries flow from dark or light,<br \/>\nAnd do we feel our way or do they speak?<br \/>\nDear hostage what is it that they will take<br \/>\nTo free your heart inside the trap they made?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the temple there. The symbol that they stole. A border thin as hair Between Bob Frost&#8217;s two roads. But we&#8217;re not here to fight. We dance a certain beat. Incorrigable night Will glide upon our feet. The way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/28\/saturday-reading-three-new-poems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}