{"id":36203,"date":"2018-03-23T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36203"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:26:35","slug":"daffodils-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/03\/daffodils-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloaks of vernal chlorophyll<br \/>\nFrom my friend the daffodil<br \/>\nWho emerges with such meaning<br \/>\nTo open up in Spring<br \/>\nEach bloom as a rule<br \/>\nGives me its sweet call<br \/>\nAnd with utter harmony<br \/>\nIts honesty does sing<\/p>\n<p>a consensus of souls<br \/>\nNow Defying all<br \/>\nThe recent snow<br \/>\nThe angry wind<br \/>\nThat tried to overhaul<br \/>\nTheir truly amazing<br \/>\nAnd splended colours<br \/>\nUncovering such will<br \/>\nExposing what is joyfulness<br \/>\nAs their pollen<br \/>\nThey do spill<\/p>\n<p>They manifest such candour<br \/>\nIn unison each day<br \/>\nA lustre of light forgiving<br \/>\nMustard and sallow<br \/>\nEach spray<br \/>\nOld gold and amber<br \/>\nBrimstone and mellow<br \/>\nA glimpse of pure sulphur<br \/>\nAnd saffron yellow<\/p>\n<p>Dancing through Spring<br \/>\nExposing their all<br \/>\nFlowers of the fae<br \/>\nAlong the old  crumbling wall<br \/>\nAble to rock<br \/>\nAnd Able to roll<br \/>\nLike songsters<br \/>\nMelodically giving us soul<\/p>\n<p>Around the cherry<br \/>\nWhose gnarled roots<br \/>\nImbibe<br \/>\nThe chords of creation<br \/>\nInspiring our tribe<br \/>\nThe dance of the tranquils<br \/>\nAffirming in me<br \/>\nAn emphatic wisdom<br \/>\nOf true constancy<\/p>\n<p>Bound up in conviction<br \/>\nCommanding their place<br \/>\nEach significant smile<br \/>\nDemanding the chase<br \/>\nOf A poetic eye<br \/>\nA creative recall<br \/>\nAsking us why<br \/>\nThey are loved by us all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloaks of vernal chlorophyll From my friend the daffodil Who emerges with such meaning To open up in Spring Each bloom as a rule Gives me its sweet call And with utter harmony Its honesty does sing a consensus of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/03\/daffodils-2\/\">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":[244,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-in-art","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203","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=36203"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36214,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203\/revisions\/36214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}