{"id":35798,"date":"2018-02-06T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35798"},"modified":"2018-02-06T21:26:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:26:40","slug":"st-kilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/st-kilda\/","title":{"rendered":"St Kilda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its a heritage site,  believe it do<br \/>\nOut of the Atlantic the cliffs they ring true<br \/>\nAmazingly climb up into the sky<br \/>\nGreat sea stacs that are very high<br \/>\nUndeniably enduring they<br \/>\nAre the home to birds<br \/>\nThat all make their way<br \/>\nTo this phenomenal place<br \/>\nWhere so many stay<\/p>\n<p>A super abundance<br \/>\nof natural born sights<br \/>\nUnspoiled undiminished<br \/>\nAnd millions of flights<br \/>\nFully fledged no holds barred<br \/>\nBrimful and gay<br \/>\nFulmars and gannets and puffins away<\/p>\n<p>Swamped by great waves<br \/>\nLaden with brine<br \/>\nCreaming great surf castles<br \/>\nNone of them mine<br \/>\nSweeping in crashing down on the<br \/>\nGreat rocks<br \/>\nThe beginning the end<br \/>\nAnd a million hard knocks<\/p>\n<p>An assemblage of life forms<br \/>\nA great compilation<br \/>\nA gathering harvest<br \/>\nA heavenly salvation<br \/>\nThe wind throws the swell<br \/>\nInto myriad horses<br \/>\nThat gallop and leap<br \/>\nWith such strength and forces<\/p>\n<p>Ride if you will<br \/>\nwith the spirit of time<br \/>\nInto infiniteness just feel the climb<br \/>\nUnfathomable lifts<br \/>\nBeyond comprehension<br \/>\nThe head wants to fly<br \/>\nThe stomach such tension<\/p>\n<p>It just feels like timelessness<br \/>\nConstant and ceaseless<br \/>\nIt feels eternal<br \/>\nFor ever and ever<br \/>\nHeritage cries out<br \/>\nIts there in one&#8217;s soul<br \/>\nA coming together<br \/>\nIn a bid to control<\/p>\n<p>We are moved by the frantic<br \/>\nFortuitous sightings<br \/>\nThe sounds of the sea birds<br \/>\nThat deafen each call<br \/>\nExciting the senses<br \/>\nIt sort of dispenses<br \/>\nCachophony&#8217;s magic<br \/>\nNow heard by us all<\/p>\n<p>I just feel so tiny<br \/>\nA sand grain tossed skywards<br \/>\nA shrimp in the tide<br \/>\nAs it thumps into shore<br \/>\nThe great march of pebbles<br \/>\nSmoothed by the tumult<br \/>\nLost in the matrix<br \/>\nFor  evermore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its a heritage site, believe it do Out of the Atlantic the cliffs they ring true Amazingly climb up into the sky Great sea stacs that are very high Undeniably enduring they Are the home to birds That all make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/st-kilda\/\">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":[24,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-sea-birds-and-bird-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798","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=35798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35800,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798\/revisions\/35800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}