{"id":121,"date":"2019-06-27T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/a-poem-for-thursday-38\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:18:17","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/a-poem-for-thursday-38\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #38"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am in New Hampshire on vacation this week and everywhere there are lupins in bloom. They are planted in gardens and growing wild and neglected by the side of the road. They are beautiful. I went looking for a poem about them and found this by Seamus Heaney.<\/p>\n

They stood. And stood for something. Just by standing.<\/i>
\nIn waiting. Unavailable. But there<\/i>
\nFor sure.\u00a0 Sure and unbending.<\/i>
\nRose-fingered dawn’s and navy midnight’s flower.<\/i>
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\nSeed packets to begin with, pink and azure,<\/i>
\nSifting lightness and small jittery promise:<\/i>
\nLupin spires, erotics of the future,<\/i>
\nLip-brush of the blue and earth’s deep purchase.<\/i>
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\nO pastel turrets, pods and tapering stalks<\/i>
\nThat stood their ground for all our summer wending<\/i>
\nAnd even when they blanched would never balk.<\/i>
\nAnd none of this surpassed our understanding.<\/i>
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\nLupins<\/i>
\nSeamus Heaney<\/p>\n

Brona<\/a> has snuck a poem into her book review this week. Reese at Typings<\/a> has several Philosophical Limericks.
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I am in New Hampshire on vacation this week and everywhere there are lupins in bloom. They are planted in gardens and growing wild and neglected by the side of the road. They are beautiful. I went looking for a poem about them and found this by Seamus Heaney. They stood. And stood for something. Just by standing. In waiting. Unavailable. But there For sure.\u00a0 Sure and unbending. Rose-fingered dawn’s and navy midnight’s flower. Seed packets to begin with, pink and azure, Sifting lightness and small jittery promise: Lupin spires, erotics of the future, Lip-brush of the blue and earth’s deep purchase. O pastel turrets, pods and tapering stalks That stood their ground for all our summer wending And even when they blanched would never balk. And none of this surpassed our understanding. Lupins Seamus Heaney Brona has snuck a poem into her book review this week. Reese at Typings has several Philosophical Limericks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}