{"id":467,"date":"2009-07-07T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-09-07T01:37:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:37:22","slug":"a-new-poem-sonnet-2-sunfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/a-new-poem-sonnet-2-sunfather\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Poem: Sonnet #2 &#8220;Sunfather&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sunfather<\/h3>\n<p>Red Wave Petunias shower over clay,<br \/>\nAll things can open up and show their light.<br \/>\nA life becomes transparent in warm May.<br \/>\nTransparent to transcendence born from night.<\/p>\n<p>Their eyes the leaves foam into greening smiles<br \/>\nto Father Sun and Mother Sea of dream.<br \/>\nThey feel the music, sibling Wind breathes miles<br \/>\nthrough body, bread and crown beneath the stream.<\/p>\n<p>It is the night of meeting ringing gold<br \/>\nthat dance and sing in drippings of the womb.<br \/>\nA rushing waterfall that drapes us cold.<br \/>\nOur salmon hearts dive in the unseen room.<\/p>\n<p>We sprang out from the sea by silent sounds,<br \/>\nAnd fire ringed God&#8217;s swung open spirits&#8217; clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ac\u00a9 2007\/2009 Stephen Pickering<\/p>\n<p>(there still will be a bunch of iteration to do on this one. I finished it, not hurriedly, but in one sitting because of the importance of composition.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunfather Red Wave Petunias shower over clay, All things can open up and show their light. A life becomes transparent in warm May. Transparent to transcendence born from night. Their eyes the leaves foam into greening smiles to Father Sun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/a-new-poem-sonnet-2-sunfather\/\">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-467","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\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}