{"id":8585,"date":"2021-09-16T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:33:15","slug":"into-the-light-and-other-poems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/into-the-light-and-other-poems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Light and other Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ships at anchor on Christmas Day<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two ships lie at anchor in the bay<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One is red and the other is black<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cannot see the crew of either ship<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I know that they are watching me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ships in Shallow Waters<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two ships rest in the shallow waters<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safe from the channel storms<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their crews are celebrating the birth of Christ<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thinking of their homes far away<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Into the Light<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the horizon a ship is sailing<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Into a plume of light<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know that I will not see its return<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Deal 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0December 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ships at anchor on Christmas Day Two ships lie at anchor in the bay One is red and the other is black I cannot see the crew of either ship But I know that they are watching me Ships in Shallow Waters Two ships rest in the shallow waters Safe from the channel storms Their [&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\/8585"}],"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=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}