{"id":15572,"date":"2014-04-11T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15572"},"modified":"2014-04-11T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T08:26:02","slug":"a-grey-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/a-grey-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"A grey sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grey sky holds such bounteous joy<\/p>\n<p>to the poet who can see<\/p>\n<p>all of nature in one gaze<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px;\">or hear a symphony<\/span><\/p>\n<p>played out upon a cool Spring day<\/p>\n<p>perhaps a listless hour<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>when blossoms waved goodbye to him<\/p>\n<p>upon a slender bough<\/p>\n<p>a myriad of sculptures<\/p>\n<p>tree spirits bold and high<\/p>\n<p>of rooks that cluster in them<\/p>\n<p>many baskets all so high<\/p>\n<p>their babies deftly swallow<\/p>\n<p>the grubs that came to be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>collected by the parents<\/p>\n<p>from the ground so avidly<\/p>\n<p>and all under a grey sky<\/p>\n<p>and a whistful silent breeze<\/p>\n<p>the clatter of a birch embrace<\/p>\n<p>lime like a fresh reprise<\/p>\n<p>the Sycamore the Hazel<\/p>\n<p>hold sway and cast the air<\/p>\n<p>the pylns transmit energy<\/p>\n<p>and receive it from elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>shafts of light that only cows<\/p>\n<p>can see do frighten, they<\/p>\n<p>stumble across hills and dales<\/p>\n<p>and all life stays away<\/p>\n<p>rigin steel encrusted in sheaths<\/p>\n<p>of rusts devour<\/p>\n<p>a grey sky holds<\/p>\n<p>such bounteous joy<\/p>\n<p>from the magick in<\/p>\n<p>its power<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*written in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grey sky holds such bounteous joy to the poet who can see all of nature in one gaze or hear a symphony played out upon a cool Spring day perhaps a listless hour &nbsp; when blossoms waved goodbye to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/a-grey-sky\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15574,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions\/15574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}