{"id":5930,"date":"2020-12-09T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:14:35","slug":"noemie-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/09\/noemie-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Noemie K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an angel on my pillow last week<\/p>\n<p>She told me that Jesus was in the next room<\/p>\n<p>And so he was<\/p>\n<p>He was not dressed in white robes as I expected him to be<\/p>\n<p>But in dirty overalls and a red bandana<\/p>\n<p><em>You look more like a steelworker than the Son of God<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He smiled<\/p>\n<p><em>That is because I am a steelworker\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have been a steelworker for the past seventeen years\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I offered him a coffee which he gladly accepted<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of his visit was to make me happy<\/p>\n<p>As I was sad<\/p>\n<p>My mother and three friends had died in the past year<\/p>\n<p><em>Without beauty the world is nothing\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I said brushing away a tear<\/p>\n<p><em>Why do you think that Noemie K\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because it is true\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Without beauty there is nothing\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nothing at all\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The steelworks have destroyed this town\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Which was once so rural\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Young men have corrupted lungs\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Due to the vile gasses released\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is a smell of death\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even I might have been contaminated\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is no beauty in Noemie K\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesus asked me for a refill of coffee<\/p>\n<p>And then left the house<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had offended him<\/p>\n<p>Until I realised that he had left his angel in my bedroom<\/p>\n<p>She was not a pretty angel and was quite plump<\/p>\n<p>Her facial features were agreeable but that was all<\/p>\n<p>Many would have considered her plain<\/p>\n<p>But to me she was the most beautiful angel that I had even seen<\/p>\n<p>And from that day onwards I was no longer sad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an angel on my pillow last week She told me that Jesus was in the next room And so he was He was not dressed in white robes as I expected him to be But in dirty overalls and a red bandana You look more like a steelworker than the Son of God [&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\/5930"}],"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=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}