{"id":31703,"date":"2017-01-07T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31703"},"modified":"2017-01-07T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:27:53","slug":"a-wide-open-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-wide-open-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"A wide open ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sea bird a wide open ocean<br \/>\nThe horizon  apparently far<br \/>\nI have wings and I do have the notion<br \/>\nTo leap and to fly and to star<\/p>\n<p>In my very own dramatic picture<br \/>\nA phantom a spectre a ghost<br \/>\nA figment of imagination<br \/>\nA solitary soul who can boast<\/p>\n<p>A place in the great scheme of genuine things<br \/>\nOutward looking and seeing so much<br \/>\nHaving eyes now to focus on the tiniest soul<br \/>\nAnd the energy really to touch<\/p>\n<p>As brains go mine is a prototype brain<br \/>\nPrimordial in many ways<br \/>\nInventive  I  could say inventive<br \/>\nThat might be worthy of praise<\/p>\n<p>Able to take affirmative action<br \/>\nAdjust and decide what to do<br \/>\nTo point my heard towards the horizon and fly<br \/>\nTo be honest a fact and be true<\/p>\n<p>To myself, it kicked in ,it seemed farther<br \/>\nThan i had imagined it to be<br \/>\nThe more that I flew it felt kind of true<br \/>\nThe distance was as far its true<\/p>\n<p>And how could that be for each moment<br \/>\nClearly I was travelling and I<br \/>\nLooked back at the beach I had walked upon<br \/>\nAnd could hardly see it, so why?<\/p>\n<p>Had the horizon not come any closer<br \/>\nHad I misjudged the  distance as well<br \/>\nLower down had it changed the perspective<br \/>\nI was feeling unsure I could tell<\/p>\n<p>The sky was a great heavy canvas<br \/>\nThe sea was an envious mass<br \/>\nIt was good  that I still was a seagull<br \/>\nFor what if I had been an Ass<\/p>\n<p>Handicapped by having 4 legs<br \/>\nAnd a great swishing tail at my back<br \/>\nNot particularly  good  in the ocean<br \/>\nFor swimming far needed a knack<\/p>\n<p>But I was above the great ocean<br \/>\nFlapping my wings trying to<br \/>\nReach the horizon of gold green<br \/>\nand yellow<br \/>\nImagining then what I&#8217;d do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sea bird a wide open ocean The horizon apparently far I have wings and I do have the notion To leap and to fly and to star In my very own dramatic picture A phantom a spectre a ghost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-wide-open-ocean\/\">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":[173,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703","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=31703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31705,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703\/revisions\/31705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}