{"id":10897,"date":"2016-05-20T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2016-05-20T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:32:29","slug":"ness-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ness-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ness Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Potion to Leave the Past Behind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take<br \/>\nyoga breaths, pins, pressure points<br \/>\ncamomile, beta-blockers, diazepam<br \/>\nfill the void with Jesus, Mars Bars and vodka<br \/>\nfill it with l-o-v-e, hate and oxygen<\/p>\n<p>(Sing)<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t turn back<br \/>\nOnly walk forward<\/p>\n<p>Blink<br \/>\ntrust your instincts<br \/>\nrun!<\/p>\n<p>catch a fleeting moment<br \/>\n<em>dal dy dir<\/em>*<br \/>\nstay in<\/p>\n<p>forgive everyone<br \/>\ngive up, give in<br \/>\nlet go<\/p>\n<p>and write and<br \/>\nwrite and dance<br \/>\nand write and dance<\/p>\n<p>repeat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ness Owen<\/strong> lives on an island where she writes poems and poetry in between lecturing and farming. Her work has appeared in <em>Poetry Wales <\/em>and<em> Red Poets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*<em>stand your ground<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Potion to Leave the Past Behind &nbsp; Take yoga breaths, pins, pressure points camomile, beta-blockers, diazepam fill the void with Jesus, Mars Bars and vodka fill it with l-o-v-e, hate and oxygen (Sing) You can\u2019t turn back Only walk forward Blink trust your instincts run! catch a fleeting moment dal dy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10900,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions\/10900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}