{"id":173,"date":"2018-12-06T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/a-poem-for-thursday-9\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:59:37","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/a-poem-for-thursday-9\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wendy Cope is a contemporary English poet. I stumbled across her on Pinterest and her poems immediately made me smile. Sometimes that is all you need and, for me, that was enough to pick a poem for today. My post should really be headed with a photo of Waterloo Bridge but since I can’t provide that you will have to be satisfied with a picture of the Thames. At least it is, appropriately, London.<\/p>\n

On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes,<\/i>
\nThe weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.<\/i>
\nI wipe them away with a black woolly glove<\/i>
\nAnd try not to notice I’ve fallen in love.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nOn Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:<\/i>
\nThis is nothing. You’re high on the charm and the drink.<\/i>
\nBut the juke-box inside me is playing a song<\/i>
\nThat says something different. And when was it wrong?<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nOn Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair<\/i>
\nI am tempted to skip.\u00a0 You’re a fool. I don’t care.<\/i>
\nThe head does its best but the heart is the boss.<\/i>
\nI admit it before I am halfway across.<\/i>
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\n<\/i>
\nAfter the Lunch<\/i>
\nWendy Cope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Cope is a contemporary English poet. I stumbled across her on Pinterest and her poems immediately made me smile. Sometimes that is all you need and, for me, that was enough to pick a poem for today. My post should really be headed with a photo of Waterloo Bridge but since I can’t provide that you will have to be satisfied with a picture of the Thames. At least it is, appropriately, London. On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes, The weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I’ve fallen in love. On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. You’re high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip.\u00a0 You’re a fool. I don’t care. The head does its best but the heart is the boss. I admit it before I am halfway across. After the Lunch Wendy Cope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1488,"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-173","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\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}