{"id":27178,"date":"2016-04-03T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27178"},"modified":"2016-04-03T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:13:10","slug":"outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"A window of a mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gade meanders generously passed<br \/>\nLand of autumn sward well green<br \/>\nTussocks dense and gazing skywards<br \/>\nWhitened with a frosty sheen<br \/>\nBeyond the curling bushes friendly<br \/>\nStands a mass a wooded clime<br \/>\nPowder puffs of pink and orange<br \/>\nEagerly now passing time<\/p>\n<p>A bridle path extends its welcome<br \/>\nOver to the bridge where sighs<br \/>\nWhere thoughts of lovers casting shadows<br \/>\nMore so than we realise<br \/>\nThe outwardness and the projection<br \/>\nA chain of reasoning follows course<br \/>\nA tractor moves along a byway<br \/>\nCreating patterning at source<\/p>\n<p>The sky a chasm so demanding<br \/>\nA diagnostic of the mind<br \/>\nEver changing with such brightness<br \/>\nHelping one to now unwind<br \/>\nThe whiteness of the sun creating<br \/>\nLight thats blinding forcing me<br \/>\nTo look away to seek some darkness<br \/>\nFor what is really truthfully<\/p>\n<p>A fullness of immense proportions<br \/>\nAn intensity of far reaching light<br \/>\nAn Overwhelming sense of justice<br \/>\nCompensating all in sight<br \/>\nThe sublimity of light on grasslands<br \/>\nChampioning the subtle shade<br \/>\nPicking out the purple pigments<br \/>\nThat with cloud cover now may fade<\/p>\n<p>The telegraph long lines of messaging<br \/>\nUnseen unheard  but all there<br \/>\nBrinkmanship and understanding<br \/>\nHang together in the air<br \/>\nSpiny hedgerows tossed and twisted<br \/>\nHave resisted  many a soul<br \/>\nWho wrestled with the thought of pushing<br \/>\nInto and through as perhaps a goal<\/p>\n<p>The thud of a 12 bore in the distance<br \/>\nPropelled across the field to where<br \/>\nSomething moved in a copse of holly<br \/>\nAnd possibly faced instant despair<br \/>\nAlready there is  massive cover<br \/>\nA cloak of slate grey now hangs fast<br \/>\nThe colours changing with every moment<br \/>\nThe natural die of life is cast<\/p>\n<p>And all of this is for the seeing<br \/>\nAn open eye a past dream state<br \/>\nDiscovering a new beginning<br \/>\nA sequel perhaps to our fate<br \/>\nBackwards forwards dusts are rising<br \/>\nFrom the tractor&#8217;s too and fro<br \/>\nStraight lines lifted and projected<br \/>\nSetting up the place to grow<\/p>\n<p>All of this is from a window on the world<br \/>\nBeyond the mind<br \/>\nThe oneness and the solitude<br \/>\nThe solidarity underlined<br \/>\nThe changeableness its fair and fleeting<br \/>\nImmortality of an age<br \/>\nA birds eye view of every moment<br \/>\nAn integral part of  every page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gade meanders generously passed Land of autumn sward well green Tussocks dense and gazing skywards Whitened with a frosty sheen Beyond the curling bushes friendly Stands a mass a wooded clime Powder puffs of pink and orange Eagerly now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/outlook\/\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethereal-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178","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=27178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27182,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178\/revisions\/27182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}