{"id":101194,"date":"2021-06-27T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101194"},"modified":"2021-06-27T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:33:09","slug":"chalices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/chalices\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chalices<\/p>\n<p>Trumpet vines in the church gardens,<br \/>\na halo of orange over the St Francis statue<br \/>\nwhere I converse with Dad on Sundays and<br \/>\nHoly Days. Birds hover on the fence, wait<br \/>\nto bless themselves in the font below the<br \/>\nSaint\u2019s feet. Cabbage white butterflies<br \/>\nflit from trumpet to trumpet, collecting<br \/>\ntheir sacrament of nectar.<\/p>\n<p>Light breezes carry the voice of angels<br \/>\nhumming a choir of hymns, their wings<br \/>\nruffle leaflets of rose bushes burgeoning<br \/>\nheavy heads of blooms; they bow under<br \/>\ntheir own weight, kneel to scatter velvet<br \/>\npetals to an altar of impatiens below.<\/p>\n<p>A butterfly, feet sticky with pollen,<br \/>\nlands in the chalice of St Francis\u2019 hand,<br \/>\nwings beat a slow hallelujah, graceful<br \/>\ntakeoff, visitations to all the blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>I chuckle, look up to heaven, tell my dad<br \/>\nhis gardening skills have improved,<br \/>\nthe flowers are breathtaking, the birds,<br \/>\nbees, and butterflies languish in gratitude.<br \/>\nI feel his soft reply on my cheek, barely<br \/>\nfelt, but I know his hands held mine,<br \/>\nclasped in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 27, 2021 Hour 20<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalices Trumpet vines in the church gardens, a halo of orange over the St Francis statue where I converse with Dad on Sundays and Holy Days. Birds hover on the fence, wait to bless themselves in the font below the Saint\u2019s feet. Cabbage white butterflies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101203,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101194\/revisions\/101203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}