{"id":16311,"date":"2018-06-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:24:03","slug":"16311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/16311\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Today<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the clouds<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">are a mountain range<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">across the sky<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">close to me<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">a plum tree<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">with cloven trunk<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">tortuous,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the last tree<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">to blossom<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">your white flowers<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">are dancing<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">in defiance<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the black clouds<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">spit their rain<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ever harder<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">but to us,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">brothers and sisters,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">it is life<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_1748052310303354208aolmail_MsoNormal\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Dennis Tomlinson<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> has had many poems published in <i>Blithe Spirit, Lunar Poetry, Time Haiku, <\/i>other small magazines and anthologies and on the websites <i>Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/i> and <i>Shot Glass Journal, inter alia. <\/i>He lives in London<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Today \u00a0 the clouds are a mountain range across the sky \u00a0 close to me a plum tree with cloven trunk \u00a0 tortuous, the last tree to blossom \u00a0 your white flowers are dancing in defiance \u00a0 the black clouds spit their rain ever harder \u00a0 but to us, brothers and sisters, [&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-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","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=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16313,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions\/16313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}