{"id":5343,"date":"2020-11-13T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2020-11-13T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:39:00","slug":"the-freshwater-bay-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/the-freshwater-bay-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freshwater Bay Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Horses Damage Hotels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning whilst shaving I saw a pigeon in difficulties<\/p>\n<p>On a slate green roof opposite<\/p>\n<p>It was trying to climb to the summit of the roof<\/p>\n<p>But was slipping wet slipping without significant progress<\/p>\n<p>A passing duck suggested flight but its advice was ignored<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over breakfast at the Albion Hotel I thought of the poor pigeon<\/p>\n<p>Slipping and wet slipping on that slate grey roof<\/p>\n<p>But when I looked for it again soon after my meal<\/p>\n<p>The small bird had vanished and was said to be riding<\/p>\n<p>Wild sea horses in Compton Bay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I contemplated this information<\/p>\n<p>I complemented my wife on her fine breasts<\/p>\n<p>For she had forgotten to dress<\/p>\n<p>After her morning shower<\/p>\n<p>Which was an easy mistake to make in a Victorian Beach Hotel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crabs at Freshwater Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During my brief stay I discovered that there were no crabs<\/p>\n<p>To be found in Freshwater Bay<\/p>\n<p>This concerned me as I admired the creatures<\/p>\n<p>And took care not to consume them<\/p>\n<p>I was told by the starfish<\/p>\n<p>That the builders were to blame<\/p>\n<p>Which I only partially believed as starfish are not to be trusted<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses Damage Hotels This morning whilst shaving I saw a pigeon in difficulties On a slate green roof opposite It was trying to climb to the summit of the roof But was slipping wet slipping without significant progress A passing duck suggested flight but its advice was ignored &nbsp; Over breakfast at the Albion Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343"}],"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=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}