{"id":28715,"date":"2016-07-29T06:14:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28715"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:51:45","slug":"the-garden-at-lammas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-garden-at-lammas\/","title":{"rendered":"The garden at Lammas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last remnants rock<br \/>\nTheir blouses are torn<br \/>\nAnd lots of dry seed heads<br \/>\nWarn of a new dawn<br \/>\nLammas time beckons the mints look a treat<br \/>\nProviding their fervour<br \/>\nFor the salads I eat<\/p>\n<p>The last of the Buttercups open<br \/>\nTo eyes<br \/>\nThe strawberry flowers<br \/>\nA pink flush of the wise<br \/>\nMore fruit for next season<br \/>\nThe chives too look dry<br \/>\nTheir heads going brown<br \/>\nIn the wink of an eye<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine its delicate perfume<br \/>\nAnd flower<br \/>\nReally at even tide<br \/>\nGives off some power<br \/>\nCaptures the senses<br \/>\nWith it&#8217;s utter repose<br \/>\nWith its flowers open wide<br \/>\nAttracting my nose<\/p>\n<p>The olfactory dancers<br \/>\nThrough senses of time<br \/>\nCreate the sweet breaths<br \/>\nThat apparently climb<br \/>\nLost in their world of clutter and grace<br \/>\nLeft by itself and the wide human race<br \/>\nSunlight creates colour<br \/>\nAnd, mtransformation<br \/>\nIt hangs in the sky<br \/>\nAnd becomes our salvation<\/p>\n<p>Plants in dry soils<br \/>\nNeeding sustenance still<br \/>\nWho may feel neglected<br \/>\nAnd certainly will<br \/>\nMiss the display of plants in the field<br \/>\nWho may have been shocked by the glyphosate build<br \/>\nAn unnatural sickle<br \/>\nTo cut them and kill<br \/>\nThe chance of the last dance<br \/>\nThat now never will<\/p>\n<p>Happen alas can you hear them cry out<br \/>\nThe want of the Flyers<br \/>\nWho hardly now doubt<br \/>\nThe drones of commitment<br \/>\nThe silence of sin<br \/>\nMOnsanto the monster is cutting things thin<\/p>\n<p>He is changing the naturalness<br \/>\nDrawing the true<br \/>\nFaking the preciousness<br \/>\nWith most clueless to<br \/>\nThe laboratorial adjustments to time<br \/>\nWhere once We had a meadow<br \/>\nnow just pits of slime<\/p>\n<p>An ugly morass<br \/>\nWith such fetid ooze<br \/>\nNo life forms to speak of<br \/>\nWhich is terrible news<br \/>\nThe light forms were banished<br \/>\nThe darkness evolved<br \/>\nThe toxins sprung forth<br \/>\nAnd became the new gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last remnants rock Their blouses are torn And lots of dry seed heads Warn of a new dawn Lammas time beckons the mints look a treat Providing their fervour For the salads I eat The last of the Buttercups &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-garden-at-lammas\/\">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":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715","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=28715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28717,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions\/28717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}