{"id":9044,"date":"2021-10-29T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:31:50","slug":"fragments-from-the-modasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/fragments-from-the-modasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragments from the Modasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things had remained unchanged for hundreds of years<\/p>\n<p>But in the space of a few short months<\/p>\n<p>You changed everything<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you keep in that hot stone bucket<\/p>\n<p>Rooks eggs<\/p>\n<p>Is that to encourage them to grow<\/p>\n<p>Into strong and respectable birds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Submarines would patrol our coast<\/p>\n<p>With their cannons primed<\/p>\n<p>They would always travel on the surface<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers in landing craft would haunt the shallows<\/p>\n<p>With their guns at the ready<\/p>\n<p>But they never fired a shot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A pair of gauntlets were lost on the beach<\/p>\n<p>They were never recovered<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>White maidens would wear pendants<\/p>\n<p>Between their breasts<\/p>\n<p>These were made using coloured sea glass<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things had remained unchanged for hundreds of years But in the space of a few short months You changed everything &nbsp; What do you keep in that hot stone bucket Rooks eggs Is that to encourage them to grow Into strong and respectable birds &nbsp; Submarines would patrol our coast With their cannons primed They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}