{"id":391,"date":"2011-09-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-09-27T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:00:00","slug":"two-poems-from-judith-mensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-poems-from-judith-mensch\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poems from Judith Mensch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like the Woods in Winter<\/span>

I like the woods in winter<\/span>
When there\u2019s no snow on the ground<\/span>
And the shadows of long lean trees<\/span>
Hidden by summers green<\/span>
Appear.<\/span>

How intriguing<\/span>
That just as the air turns cooler<\/span>
The days shorter<\/span>
Just as we add more protection,<\/span>
More covering for our spare,<\/span>
Skeletal nakedness<\/span>
The trees drop their clothes;<\/span>
Just as we go into hiding<\/span>
(some call it hibernation)<\/span>
the trees are revealed.<\/span>


Pinky's Funeral<\/span>

All the words I was to say were said<\/span>
and so I waited, while you said good-bye<\/span>
while you leaned over the edge<\/span>
of your beloved\u2019s last bed<\/span>
and kissed his cheek<\/span>
whispering some words of love that in my leisure<\/span>
I like to consider<\/span>

Stack up your few words against<\/span>
my thousands and see<\/span>
which ones come out on top.<\/span>



*Rev. Judith Mensch<\/span> served as a pastor in the United Methodist Church.  She began writing poetry in the last years of her life, as a way of responding to and coping with breast cancer.  She passed away in 2003.<\/span>
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I like the Woods in WinterI like the woods in winterWhen there\u2019s no snow on the groundAnd the shadows of long lean treesHidden by summers greenAppear.How intriguingThat just as the air turns coolerThe days shorterJust as we add more protection,More covering for our spare,Skeletal nakednessThe trees drop their clothes;Just as we go into hiding(some call […]<\/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-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}