{"id":46917,"date":"2020-07-19T04:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46917"},"modified":"2020-07-19T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:57:20","slug":"my-dear-friend-alan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/my-dear-friend-alan\/","title":{"rendered":"My dear friend Alan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You were alone<br \/>\nWhen it happened<br \/>\nResolute, dreaming perhaps<br \/>\nA lapse to the norm<br \/>\nJust feeling warm<br \/>\nA solution the kind that just wraps<br \/>\nItself in a limbo of being<br \/>\nOblivious almost of things<br \/>\nAbstracted and taken<br \/>\nAway in that moment<br \/>\nRemembering though<br \/>\nYou had wings<\/p>\n<p>To fly on the premise<br \/>\nOf futures<br \/>\nConfident that you could sail<br \/>\nInto the sunset<br \/>\nOn a wayward draught<br \/>\nForewarned and forearmed<br \/>\nWith your own special craft<\/p>\n<p>Aware of your knees<br \/>\nAnd your hands and your  wings<br \/>\nA trick of the light<br \/>\nWhere everything brings<br \/>\nAnticipation prophetic,  a taste<br \/>\nPerhaps a foreboding<br \/>\nOf what you now faced<\/p>\n<p>Surmising just mooting<br \/>\nThe future ahead<br \/>\nA tinkling cymbal played<br \/>\nLoud in your head<br \/>\nIt felt incoherent<br \/>\nA stammering guide<br \/>\nUnrecognisable from deep inside<\/p>\n<p>almost esoteric<br \/>\nUnspeakably you<br \/>\nWere drifting<br \/>\nAnd life seemed<br \/>\nUntranslatable too<\/p>\n<p>Alan thinking of you hoping you are realising<br \/>\nRest from the rigours is now paramount<br \/>\nA poem of an experience I believe you felt<\/p>\n<p>what is  important now is your journey<br \/>\nBack to the normality that rest and family care<br \/>\nWill give you <\/p>\n<p>Rex x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were alone When it happened Resolute, dreaming perhaps A lapse to the norm Just feeling warm A solution the kind that just wraps Itself in a limbo of being Oblivious almost of things Abstracted and taken Away in that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/my-dear-friend-alan\/\">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":[344,89,22,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-death-and-dying","category-emotional-poems","category-ethereal-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46917","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=46917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46919,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46917\/revisions\/46919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}