{"id":3120,"date":"2012-09-16T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2012-09-17T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T08:40:05","slug":"girl-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/girl-in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl in the mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Girl in the mirror<br \/>\nis a girl<br \/>\nwho isn&#8217;t there<br \/>\nnot really<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s imaginary<br \/>\nthe waking hours<br \/>\nwe share<br \/>\nshe knows, who she is<br \/>\nshe is real<br \/>\nbut not with me<br \/>\nnot here in my mirror<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the reality<\/p>\n<p>she comes and goes<br \/>\nI do suppose<br \/>\nin solace, I can see<br \/>\nher at the window<br \/>\nin my mind<br \/>\nmirrored classically<br \/>\ncreative in earth magic<br \/>\nin aromatic oils<br \/>\nin casting<br \/>\neverlasting<br \/>\nthe soul forever<br \/>\ntoils<\/p>\n<p>wrapped up in<br \/>\npurple torments<br \/>\nand vast deserts of sand<br \/>\nwhere rainbows<br \/>\nand where crystals<br \/>\nare very often panned<br \/>\nas Glastonbury, beckons<br \/>\nand the wisest, of seers<br \/>\nlay their hands upon her<br \/>\nand wipe away her tears<\/p>\n<p>she dances in the garden<br \/>\nshe dances in her room<br \/>\nthe music from deep in her soul<br \/>\nbrings thoughts perhaps<br \/>\nof whom?<br \/>\ninner depths of wonderment<br \/>\nthat surface late at night<br \/>\nwhen wolves and owls<br \/>\ncommunicate<br \/>\nin the golden light<\/p>\n<p>a captivating presence<br \/>\nthat illustrates the joy<br \/>\nthat motivates the tortoise<br \/>\nto gravitate<br \/>\nhis ploy<br \/>\nto concentrate<br \/>\nand to demonstrate<br \/>\nhis feeling in a way<br \/>\nto appreciate<br \/>\nand just to state<br \/>\nthat he hopes she&#8217;s there<br \/>\nto stay&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>locked up<br \/>\nin the realms of all that&#8217;s<br \/>\nnatural calm and warm<br \/>\na goddess in the mirror<br \/>\nin her spirit form<br \/>\nand everything about her<br \/>\nis abundantly so pure<br \/>\nmirrored by the passion<br \/>\nthat she must surely<br \/>\nration<br \/>\nfor otherwise<br \/>\nher lure becomes the cure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a girl in the mirror a story with hints of reality thrown in for good measure <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/girl-in-the-mirror\/\">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-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethereal-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}