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Whoopers’ Greeting As the stifled windmills a crop of white necked swans unify a rush of beaks into the silent Norfolk sky, seamlessly unveiling a thread continuous. low-calling ‘friend’ to the high notes, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Words by Helen Pletts\u2028<\/strong> whose two collections, Bottle bank<\/a> and For the chiding dove<\/a>, are both\u2028published by YWO\/Legend Press (supported by The Arts Council) and\u2028available on Amazon. Bottle bank was longlisted for The Bridport\u2028Poetry Prize 2006, under Helen\u2019s maiden name of Bannister. You are\u2028welcome to visit http:\/\/www.stem-of-quietly-disarrayed-fertility.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Image by Romit Berger<\/strong> who says \u201c\u201cI am a graphic designer. I met my very dear friend, Helen Pletts, in Prague, several years ago. Helen\u2019s inspiration has led my graphic design career into that magical realm which combines illustration and poetry, and our creative wings continue to connect our souls through time and distance.\u201d My work can be seen on \u00a0www.romitcom.com<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whoopers’ Greeting As the stifled windmills curve their stillness into the blank a crop of white necked swans spaced as boats in the churning green unify a rush of beaks into the silent Norfolk sky, enter the staggered view of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21009,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/21009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\ncurve their stillness into the blank<\/p>\n
\nspaced as boats in the churning green<\/p>\n
\nenter the staggered view of fence and field;<\/p>\n
\nAll the white seeking company with larks<\/p>\n
\nto that invisible quaver in the cloud.<\/p>\n