{"id":3620,"date":"2017-07-16T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2017-07-16T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T11:18:58","slug":"the-kingsdown-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/16\/the-kingsdown-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingsdown Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in front of The Zetland Arms listening to a Leonard Cohen song<\/p>\n<p><i>Dance Me to the End of Love<\/i> rolls gently across the beach and dies quietly in the breeze<\/p>\n<p>You are sitting on a memory bench looking out to sea<\/p>\n<p>We exchange no words but I know that you are thinking of me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have crossed the wide beach towards the white cliffs<\/p>\n<p>In my hand I am carrying a camera<\/p>\n<p>I turn frequently and record your likeness<\/p>\n<p>As I get further away you become a shadow almost hidden by the drunken sea<\/p>\n<p>You cannot see me<\/p>\n<p>But you are always in my view<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two horses are being ridden in the shallow waves<\/p>\n<p>They cause little disturbance<\/p>\n<p>You are watching the horses but thinking of me<\/p>\n<p>I am hidden from view<\/p>\n<p>With a whiff of cruelty I have positioned myself directly behind you<\/p>\n<p>Only a partition of light bushes separate us<\/p>\n<p>I note your quiet distress but do not reveal myself<\/p>\n<p>Until you turn<\/p>\n<p>You mutter a light profanity and grab my hand<\/p>\n<p>And lead me along the dusty sea path<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in front of The Zetland Arms listening to a Leonard Cohen song Dance Me to the End of Love rolls gently across the beach and dies quietly in the breeze You are sitting on a memory bench looking out to sea We exchange no words but I know that you are thinking [&hellip;]<\/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\/3620"}],"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=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}