{"id":17108,"date":"2018-08-25T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17108"},"modified":"2018-07-28T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:55:24","slug":"stephen-daniels-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/stephen-daniels-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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12 ways to show (not tell) someone you love them<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Silence is often misunderstood for indecision. When I tell you this, you ask me to show don\u2019t tell. And I\u2019m not sure what to do.<\/li>\n
  2. Love is a supply of oxygen, a water source, ample food and sunlight.<\/li>\n
  3. Your eyes are open – a roofless convertible, your hair as messy as my intent.<\/li>\n
  4. We met when sense became a well-fitted kitchen.<\/li>\n
  5. I feel the only way to show you I love you is to drink your tea.<\/li>\n
  6. When my jeans are too tight you tell me to stop complaining.<\/li>\n
  7. It takes approximately 10 days to dehydrate to death.<\/li>\n
  8. I continually chant \u2018tell her\u2019 in the shower each morning.<\/li>\n
  9. When you ask me how I live with myself, all I can taste is copper.<\/li>\n
  10. Loneliness can be hidden with sufficient cleaning fluid.<\/li>\n
  11. A long walk at dusk across mist-ridden fields, is not the same as passion.<\/li>\n
  12. I refuse to breathe until you return.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Stephen Daniels<\/strong> is the editor of Amaryllis Poetry<\/em>. His poetry has been published in numerous magazines and websites. His pamphlet Tell Mistakes I Love Them<\/em> was published in 2017 by V. Press. His second pamphlet will be published by Paper Swans Press in 2018. Find out more at\u00a0www.stephenkirkdaniels.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              12 ways to show (not tell) someone you love them   Silence is often misunderstood for indecision. When I tell you this, you ask me to show don\u2019t tell. And I\u2019m not sure what to do. Love is a supply of oxygen, a water source, ample food and sunlight. Your […]<\/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-17108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108","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=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17324,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions\/17324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}