{"id":1203,"date":"2014-08-27T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2014-08-27T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T19:05:18","slug":"coastal-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/coastal-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mermaid <\/b><\/p>\n

Whilst sitting on the pier and fishing without purpose<\/p>\n

I netted a mermaid who was none too pleased at being caught<\/p>\n

To apologise I took her to the finest restaurant in the town<\/p>\n

Where we shared a menu of blue lobster and crab<\/p>\n

Afterwards we sat on the beach and counted the stars<\/p>\n

Before returning to the pier<\/p>\n

Where I taught the mermaid the fundamentals of fishing<\/p>\n

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Six Mundane Walks on a Concrete Pier <\/b><\/p>\n

As I walked in driving rain towards the entrance of the pier<\/p>\n

A malicious hand locked the iron gates<\/p>\n

But I cared little as I had discovered<\/p>\n

The third level of the structure<\/p>\n

Under the waves<\/p>\n

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Seats of Remembrance \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Tired tinsel with flowers<\/p>\n

Now fading<\/p>\n

In the late summer sun<\/p>\n

Lives remembered in wood<\/p>\n

Still gathering sea views<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Invasion<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The lights on the opposite shore<\/p>\n

Are gradually being extinguished<\/p>\n

Whilst the lights on this shore<\/p>\n

Are full and bright<\/p>\n

This occasions a fluorescence<\/p>\n

Deep in the channel that separates us<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Mermaid Whilst sitting on the pier and fishing without purpose I netted a mermaid who was none too pleased at being caught To apologise I took her to the finest restaurant in the town Where we shared a menu of blue lobster and crab Afterwards we sat on the beach and counted the stars Before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"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=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}