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A Happy Ending For Petrologists\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A pebble sat upon a beach and thought, as would a stone,<\/p>\n Of whether in the Universe it was a soul alone.<\/p>\n For it could see no evidence to otherwise disprove<\/p>\n That rocks had not the wherewithal to think or talk or move.<\/p>\n And there with countless coloured stones, all smooth and weatherworn,<\/p>\n Suppressed its angst, lay motionless, stayed quiet and forlorn.<\/p>\n Through summers and through winters, it endured its solitude,<\/p>\n In pebbly reflection, existentially it stewed.<\/p>\n And as its hopes diminished with each wave that crashed the shore,<\/p>\n It worried that it might be quite alone forever more<\/p>\n Until one day this sad and strange affair came to an end;<\/p>\n A fellow pebble turned and smiled and asked to be its friend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jonathan Humble<\/strong> is a deputy head teacher in Cumbria. His poetry has appeared in The Big Issue In The North, Poems For Freedom, The Caterpillar Magazine, Lighten Up Online<\/em> and on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Cumbria. Through TMB Books, he has published a collection of his stuff entitled My Camel’s Name Is Brian<\/a><\/em>. Blog: northernjim.blogspot.co.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Happy Ending For Petrologists\u00a0 A pebble sat upon a beach and thought, as would a stone, Of whether in the Universe it was a soul alone. For it could see no evidence to otherwise disprove That rocks had not the wherewithal to think or talk or move. And there with […]<\/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-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","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=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9212,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}