{"id":143694,"date":"2023-09-03T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143694"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:34:09","slug":"poppies-shasta-daisies-yarrow-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poppies-shasta-daisies-yarrow-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppies, shasta daisies &amp; yarrow #24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stood in a wind blown meadow<br \/>\nAs poppies, shasta daisies<br \/>\nAnd yarrow<br \/>\nPlayed with the wind<br \/>\nUnder a sky the colour<br \/>\nOf a million tonnes<br \/>\nOf Welsh slate<br \/>\nFeeling lost, beyond hope<br \/>\nWhen a gust caught me<br \/>\nTook my breath and reminded me<br \/>\nIn a gasp<br \/>\nThat where there is life<br \/>\nThere really is hope<br \/>\nAnd the clouds opened<br \/>\nTo turn their wrath upon my folly.<br \/>\nI stood, face upturned to the heavens<br \/>\nTo greet the deluge<br \/>\nMy black thoughts washed away<br \/>\nAlongside my mood<br \/>\nAnd smiled at the lesson<br \/>\nThe flowers taught<br \/>\nTo be is enough<br \/>\nTo move with the wind is to play<br \/>\nAnd to receive nature&#8217;s gifts<br \/>\nIs something denied to none who still live<br \/>\nAnd for a moment<br \/>\nI swayed with the poppies,<br \/>\nShasta daisies and yarrow<br \/>\nMore free than I had ever been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood in a wind blown meadow As poppies, shasta daisies And yarrow Played with the wind Under a sky the colour Of a million tonnes Of Welsh slate Feeling lost, beyond hope When a gust caught me Took my breath and reminded me In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143694","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143747,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143694\/revisions\/143747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}