{"id":9110,"date":"2021-11-09T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9110"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:58:47","slug":"dancing-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/dancing-by-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing by the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday whilst out walking<\/p>\n<p>I saw two women dancing on the coastal path<\/p>\n<p>They were a mother and daughter<\/p>\n<p>Aged sixty years and thirty years<\/p>\n<p>Both were called Elena<\/p>\n<p>I was sitting in my standard chair<\/p>\n<p>Near the grey pumice fields<\/p>\n<p>When a priest and his beautiful sister<\/p>\n<p>Passed me only pausing for cheerful greeting<\/p>\n<p>They lived in the old house by the sea<\/p>\n<p>And were the centre of the community<\/p>\n<p>I adored the sister but knew of impossibility of love<\/p>\n<p>The carpenter had brought his violin<\/p>\n<p>And soon his music haunted the shores<\/p>\n<p>A nun asked me to dance and I accepted<\/p>\n<p>She was much shorter than me<\/p>\n<p>But dainty in her exquisite manner<\/p>\n<p>I could see the adoration in her eyes as we danced<\/p>\n<p>This made me very happy as I was poor in my movement<\/p>\n<p>In all about twelve couples were dancing on the sandy path<\/p>\n<p>Some were young and others much older than me<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the sun and then the moon which shared the sky<\/p>\n<p>And knew this to be the day after eternity had ended<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday whilst out walking I saw two women dancing on the coastal path They were a mother and daughter Aged sixty years and thirty years Both were called Elena I was sitting in my standard chair Near the grey pumice fields When a priest and his beautiful sister Passed me only pausing for cheerful greeting [&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-9110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110","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=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}