{"id":31511,"date":"2017-01-02T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31511"},"modified":"2017-01-02T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T09:46:23","slug":"alexandra-waterfalls-and-the-water-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/alexandra-waterfalls-and-the-water-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"ALexandra Waterfalls and the water of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rich world of Nature<br \/>\nExplicitly shows<br \/>\nThe physical substance<br \/>\nThat just grows and grows<br \/>\nThe realization the embodiment see<br \/>\nIt activates and plunges so violently<br \/>\nCreating a spectacle<br \/>\nGreat sheets of ice<br \/>\nCanada&#8217;s tundra<br \/>\nSeen in a trice<\/p>\n<p>Melt water turning<br \/>\nThe ice sheets to where<br \/>\nIt pours off the mountain<br \/>\nSo so aware<br \/>\nStanding still watching this<br \/>\nAstral projection<br \/>\nThe psychic addiction<br \/>\nThe abstract connection<\/p>\n<p>Frozen in time for six months or more<br \/>\nAnd engaged by the sun<br \/>\nto run to the floor<br \/>\nTo thrust and to extricate<br \/>\nTo demand and to flow<br \/>\nTo the sound of the violent debacle below<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of spirit<br \/>\nFor the gullible who<br \/>\nSeem formless<br \/>\nBefore the great impasse<br \/>\nTo do<br \/>\nAnything really<br \/>\nBut look and exclaim<br \/>\nOf The beauty of Nature<br \/>\nOf its ethereal claim<\/p>\n<p>Gravity balancing<br \/>\nAnd pressing on<br \/>\nThe true compensation factor upon<br \/>\nOne&#8217;s soul as one&#8217;s scales<br \/>\nAre hung out to dry<br \/>\nTo the rarified sounds<br \/>\nThat now  do belie<\/p>\n<p>The water of life<br \/>\nThe vitality<br \/>\nThe vapour the spring<br \/>\nIts a real therapy<br \/>\nThat raises the bearer<br \/>\nTo heights seldom seen<br \/>\nDrenched in the spirit<br \/>\nIn an ocean of green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rich world of Nature Explicitly shows The physical substance That just grows and grows The realization the embodiment see It activates and plunges so violently Creating a spectacle Great sheets of ice Canada&#8217;s tundra Seen in a trice Melt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/alexandra-waterfalls-and-the-water-of-life\/\">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":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-poems","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511","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=31511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31513,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions\/31513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}