{"id":10738,"date":"2022-05-04T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2022-05-04T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:32:09","slug":"poems-written-just-before-easter-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/poems-written-just-before-easter-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems written just before Easter 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Music of Vagrants<\/strong><\/p>\n

What shiftless creatures they are<\/p>\n

Taking little pride in their hygiene or appearance<\/p>\n

I often meet them on lonely roads<\/p>\n

And swap sweet grasshoppers<\/p>\n

In the golden green rain<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Corrupted Maidenhead Idle Coventry<\/strong><\/p>\n

I often look at the skies above this woeful town<\/p>\n

Which change constantly but never change<\/p>\n

Only the spire of the main church gives me hope<\/p>\n

But even she is now hidden urban and disguised<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Corrupted Maidenhead Idle Coventry<\/strong><\/p>\n

I knew her as a girl fresh in the Berkshire fields<\/p>\n

But over time she was corrupted without protest<\/p>\n

By the festering men diseased and unclean<\/p>\n

And now she lies dying on her damp whore bed<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pigeon Strike Hungerford<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pigeon is now in Taunton Exeter and Penzance<\/p>\n

A wit was heard to say as he alighted from my train<\/p>\n

Although there were many feathers on the damp platform<\/p>\n

I could not find the remains of the bird<\/p>\n

So I contented myself with the discovery of an engineer\u2019s glove<\/p>\n

Which lay stranded near where it had been previously lost<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Music of Vagrants What shiftless creatures they are Taking little pride in their hygiene or appearance I often meet them on lonely roads And swap sweet grasshoppers In the golden green rain   Corrupted Maidenhead Idle Coventry I often look at the skies above this woeful town Which change constantly but never change Only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}