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Love Hopes<\/strong><\/p>\n Standing in the street, My heart sits in my mouth, I want to believe <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tom Kelly<\/strong> is a Jarrow-born poet and playwright who lives further up the Tyne at Blaydon. These poems are taken from his next collection I Know Their Footsteps<\/em> –\u00a0 Red Squirrel Press. <\/a> Love Hopes Standing in the street, watching her house as if it will walk to me. My heart sits in my mouth, waiting for this to happen, in a matter of time. I want to believe she will walk above the pavements perfectly, circle air like St Bernadette, climb to my held […]<\/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-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","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=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwatching her house
\nas if it will walk to me.<\/p>\n
\nwaiting for this to happen,
\nin a matter of time.<\/p>\n
\nshe will walk above the pavements perfectly,
\ncircle air like St Bernadette,
\nclimb to my held breath,
\nthen rain decides to fall
\non my love hopes.<\/p>\n
\nThis is his website: http:\/\/www.tomkelly.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"