{"id":3294,"date":"2012-10-05T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2012-10-03T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:09:55","slug":"to-celebrate-national-poetry-day-we-bring-you-a-whole-weekful-of-poems-on-the-theme-of-stars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/to-celebrate-national-poetry-day-we-bring-you-a-whole-weekful-of-poems-on-the-theme-of-stars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"To celebrate National Poetry Day, we bring you a whole weekful of poems on the theme of &#8216;Stars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>perhaps the palm of my hand<br \/>\nmust always turn into the back of my hand<br \/>\njust like that<\/p>\n<p>perhaps life<br \/>\nmust always be taken apart and put back together again<br \/>\njust to see how it really works<\/p>\n<p>once I climbed on a roof<br \/>\nbut it was no good<br \/>\nthe world beneath me was a dribble of time<br \/>\nabove\u2026 the plough trembled<br \/>\nstars flitted<br \/>\nand all at once the truth whizzed past me<br \/>\ntoo quick to catch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew McCallum<\/strong> lives and works in the South of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Universe After One Cup of Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When we\u2019re walking to school in the morning<br \/>\nthey ask me about the stars.<br \/>\nLively as larks, they&#8217;re bursting for learning<br \/>\nwhen we\u2019re walking to school in the morning.<br \/>\nBehind my fingers I\u2019m quietly yawning<br \/>\nas I rustle in my brain for how bigs and how fars,<br \/>\nwhen we\u2019re walking to school in the morning.<br \/>\nThey ask me about the stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ailsa Holland<\/strong> is a poet and translator. She makes the photo-poems blog ailsaandlisa with Lisa Williams, photographer (<a href=\"http:\/\/ailsaandlisa.wordpress.com\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ailsaandlisa.wordpress.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; stars perhaps the palm of my hand must always turn into the back of my hand just like that perhaps life must always be taken apart and put back together again just to see how it really works once I climbed on a roof but it was no good the world beneath me [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}