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Putting out the prayer flags<\/strong><\/p>\n Can\u2019t pray any more, and so I have done with asking God I don\u2019t expect the wind to ask for miracles, And the flags: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ann Alexander<\/strong> has published three collections of poetry, Facing Demons<\/em> and Nasty, British & Shor<\/em>t from Peterloo and Too Close<\/em> from Ward Wood.\u00a0 She lives in Cornwall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Putting out the prayer flags Can\u2019t pray any more, and so I let the wind do the praying for me. I have done with asking God for favours I have not earned, promising to be good hereafter. God will listen to the wind. I don\u2019t expect the wind to ask for miracles, […]<\/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-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","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=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI let the wind do the praying for me.<\/p>\n
\nfor favours I have not earned,
\npromising to be good hereafter.
\nGod will listen to the wind.<\/p>\n
\nonly an easy passage for you,
\nmy old ship
\ncreaking out of harbour.<\/p>\n
\nyellow, green, purple, red,
\nlike a sailor\u2019s pennant:
\nEngland expects every man.
\nFarewell, welcome home.<\/p>\n