{"id":1236,"date":"2008-05-01T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2008-05-01T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:34:37","slug":"two-poems-by-belinda-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-poems-by-belinda-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poems by Belinda Dale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Entropy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She lies inert, <br \/>in her hand the phone waits<\/p>\n<p>static.<\/p>\n<p>Wears a smile<br \/>like the other girls.<\/p>\n<p>Hair straightened &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;salon shine,<\/p>\n<p>because she\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect skin,<br \/>regular uniform teeth;<\/p>\n<p>she flips<br \/>through Cosmopolitan magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The phone rings;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2026like,<br \/>\u2026yeah,<br \/>\u2026y\u2019 know\u2019<\/p>\n<p>pink bubblegum tones.<\/p>\n<p>She fits in<br \/>just like the other girls.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">watching the rain from my window<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am watching the rain from my window<br \/>it bounces on the red brick of the street<\/p>\n<p>it slides down gutters, down roofs, down chimneys<br \/>it slips from streetlamps, and signs, and leaves<\/p>\n<p>it ripples in puddles driven by the wind<br \/>it scatters under cars and booted feet<\/p>\n<p>it swills into grids, into drains, into streams<br \/>and I watch from the stillness of my room,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; unmoving.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Belinda Dale is the secretary of the Chorley &amp; District Writers Circle and has had several poems accepted by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Decanto<\/span> magazine.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entropy She lies inert, in her hand the phone waits static. Wears a smilelike the other girls. Hair straightened &#8211; &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;salon shine, because she\u2019s worth it. Perfect skin,regular uniform teeth; she flipsthrough Cosmopolitan magazine. The phone rings; \u2018\u2026like,\u2026yeah,\u2026y\u2019 know\u2019 pink bubblegum tones. She fits injust like the other girls. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}