{"id":11100,"date":"2022-06-21T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11100"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:43:05","slug":"poems-written-during-an-exhausting-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/poems-written-during-an-exhausting-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems Written During an Exhausting Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starman<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday mornings he rose from his bed quite naked and sat in front of his computer<\/p>\n

After a busy week he wanted to write poetry<\/p>\n

He imagined that his words would reflect civil strife death and senseless destruction<\/p>\n

But instead he wrote poems of exceptional beauty<\/p>\n

Full of lyricism and grace<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n

When he had completed his merry tasks<\/p>\n

He shared<\/p>\n

Coffee with his beautiful wife<\/p>\n

He often undid her gown and caressed her happy breasts<\/p>\n

And wondered which of the lives he led was the real one<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Drifting through Saturdays<\/strong><\/p>\n

For less than a minute each Saturday morning<\/p>\n

He took an interest<\/p>\n

In the pale bricks that lined the station wall<\/p>\n

How beautiful they are<\/em><\/p>\n

He thought to himself<\/p>\n

But do all things possess beauty?<\/em><\/p>\n

His concentration was always broken<\/p>\n

When his wife pulled up in the family car<\/p>\n

If pale bricks possess such beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

Why is ugliness so apparent in this wretched town?
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Savage Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fresh robin<\/p>\n

A friend for a week<\/p>\n

Now lies cold<\/p>\n

In the gutter of a country road<\/p>\n

I am only but now discovering the futility of time travel<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fields of England are covered with lambs<\/p>\n

And family\u2019s spring burnt<\/p>\n

Await their pizzas (wood fired<\/em>) next to the glowing tables freshly made<\/p>\n

Primroses comfort each other in close proximity<\/p>\n

As they profit in the early sun<\/p>\n

But they know that they will fade soon out of memory<\/p>\n

A cuckoo is heard in a distant air<\/p>\n

And becomes the subject of much discussion<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is close and is a master of disguise<\/em><\/p>\n

No they are shy birds and never disclosed\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The pizzas arrive splendid on grey slate<\/p>\n

All are topped with the new meats of the countryside<\/p>\n

And sad lambs in the surrounding meadows<\/p>\n

Look longingly at their birth mothers<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Vincent is Travelling<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vincent is travelling towards<\/p>\n

The vivid cornfields<\/p>\n

Only the crows are alarmed<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2018<\/p>\n

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

Starman On Saturday mornings he rose from his bed quite naked and sat in front of his computer After a busy week he wanted to write poetry He imagined that his words would reflect civil strife death and senseless destruction But instead he wrote poems of exceptional beauty Full of lyricism and grace   Coffee […]<\/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-11100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100","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=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}