{"id":37,"date":"2020-06-11T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/11\/a-poem-for-thursday-85\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:40:21","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/11\/a-poem-for-thursday-85\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #85"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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David Rowbotham was an Australian journalist, teacher, and poet. He became interested in writing during World War II when he kept a poetry notebook and took a journalism course through correspondence. He published fifteen collections of poetry during his lifetime and also helped found major literary festivals in Australia.<\/p>\n

Draw down the blind and let the dark<\/i>
\nAround the spinning starlight mark<\/i>
\nThat there’s a stillness in this room<\/i>
\nWhen Love the planet circles home.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nAnd, from its chaliced beauty, lays<\/i>
\nAnd legends of the world’s first days<\/i>
\nMove to our lips, from which shall flow<\/i>
\nAnother lay that earth may know<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nWhen men and women worshipping<\/i>
\nIn far centuries at evening<\/i>
\nAre glad our stillness and our song<\/i>
\nWere here a legend of their own.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nDraw down the blind and now between<\/i>
\nThe Eden and the ending sun<\/i>
\nCleave ages and evade all death<\/i>
\nLike the planet that we lie beneath.\u00a0<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nDraw Down The Blind<\/i>
\nDavid Rowbotham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by\u00a0Robert V. Ruggiero\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash David Rowbotham was an Australian journalist, teacher, and poet. He became interested in writing during World War II when he kept a poetry notebook and took a journalism course through correspondence. He published fifteen collections of poetry during his lifetime and also helped found major literary festivals in Australia. Draw down the blind and let the dark Around the spinning starlight mark That there’s a stillness in this room When Love the planet circles home. And, from its chaliced beauty, lays And legends of the world’s first days Move to our lips, from which shall flow Another lay that earth may know When men and women worshipping In far centuries at evening Are glad our stillness and our song Were here a legend of their own. Draw down the blind and now between The Eden and the ending sun Cleave ages and evade all death Like the planet that we lie beneath.\u00a0 Draw Down The Blind David Rowbotham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889,"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-37","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\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}