{"id":40337,"date":"2019-02-27T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40337"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:17:39","slug":"the-wayward-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-wayward-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The wayward donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realness actuality<br \/>\nA perpetual indestructable<br \/>\nRoad to nowhere<br \/>\nHard underfoot<br \/>\nWhere flesh and blood<br \/>\nIs often put<\/p>\n<p>Endurance in the light of day<br \/>\nEmotionally where ere I stray<br \/>\nA fictitious land of destiny<br \/>\nWhere together we can never be<br \/>\ninstead the hills that I must climb<br \/>\nAnd muscle weary pass the time<br \/>\nFeel my marrow taut and seering<br \/>\nIn the heat where those now sneearing<br \/>\nToss a brick and hope that I<br \/>\nMay falter underneath the sky<\/p>\n<p>Oh beast of burden bearing heavy<br \/>\nBricks and mortar on a back<br \/>\nTired and sore from the exertion<br \/>\nAlways on some dusty track<br \/>\nLittle water for my dry throat<br \/>\nWracked and sore under the sun<br \/>\nVery little compensation<br \/>\nFor the concentration done<\/p>\n<p>Having the integrity<br \/>\nTo be about my work each day<br \/>\nBeing beaten by the dozen lashes<br \/>\nAlways made to pay<br \/>\nUnpredictablity<br \/>\nStaying power an driving force<br \/>\nBlood and sweat<br \/>\nand drive and vigour<br \/>\nDynamism from tHe source<\/p>\n<p>Disabled and incapacitated<br \/>\nTotter teeter stagger sway<br \/>\nThese are qualities I offer<br \/>\nTo the damsel every day<br \/>\nVulnerable perhaps decrepit<br \/>\nStruggling on despite the height<br \/>\nFertile is the spawning mind<br \/>\nLuxuriant with lots of light<\/p>\n<p>All the while such cogitation<br \/>\nThoughtfulness and couplets coming<br \/>\nWhere for art their pondering prose<br \/>\nPerceptions of my inner numbing<br \/>\nAnd awareness where it goes<br \/>\nIn the Barn at night i ponder<br \/>\nVerse a plenty on my ear<br \/>\nAt work all day and very hard too<br \/>\nBut still a sage I think I hear<\/p>\n<p>A soundness and a sense of being<br \/>\nAll seeing on this rocky climb<br \/>\nInventiveness and a preoccupation<br \/>\nIn tranquility and rhyme<br \/>\nAll the bricks that were ever carried<br \/>\nOr thrown at me<br \/>\nOn ridges high<br \/>\nThat hit home and wounds were apparent<br \/>\nHave been challenges and thats no lie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realness actuality A perpetual indestructable Road to nowhere Hard underfoot Where flesh and blood Is often put Endurance in the light of day Emotionally where ere I stray A fictitious land of destiny Where together we can never be instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-wayward-donkey\/\">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":[344,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-ethereal-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337","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=40337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40354,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions\/40354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}