{"id":5129,"date":"2026-03-12T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:41:12","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-326\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #326"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/noah-silliman-vhInzGLpnyI-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5130\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@noahsilliman?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Noah Silliman<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/green-plants-under-full-moon-vhInzGLpnyI?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow, I have forgotten to post for the last few weeks. Life has, as usual, been a little crazy but I don&#8217;t usually completely forget. And, here it is, almost 9:00 and I only just remembered. Anyway, here is a poem for you. I hope you enjoy it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I want you and you are not here. I pause<br>in this garden, breathing the colour thought is<br>before language into still air. Even your name<br>is a pale ghost and, though I exhale it again<br>and again, it will not stay with me. Tonight<br>I make you up, imagine you, your movements clearer<br>than the words I have you say you said before.<br><br>Wherever you are now, inside my head you fix me<br>with a look, standing here whilst cool late light<br>dissolves into the earth. I have got your mouth wrong,<br>but still it smiles. I hold you closer, miles away,<br>inventing love, until the calls of nightjars<br>interrupt and turn what was to come, was certain,<br>into memory. The stars are filming us for no one.<br><br>Miles Away<br>Carol Ann Duffy<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, I have forgotten to post for the last few weeks. Life has, as usual, been a little crazy but I don&#8217;t usually completely forget. And, here it is, almost 9:00 and I only just remembered. Anyway, here is a poem for you. I hope you enjoy it. I want you and you are not here. I pausein this garden, breathing the colour thought isbefore language into still air. Even your nameis a pale ghost and, though I exhale it againand again, it will not stay with me. TonightI make you up, imagine you, your movements clearerthan the words I have you say you said before.Wherever you are now, inside my head you fix mewith a look, standing here whilst cool late lightdissolves into the earth. I have got your mouth wrong,but still it smiles. I hold you closer, miles away,inventing love, until the calls of nightjarsinterrupt and turn what was to come, was certain,into memory. The stars are filming us for no one.Miles AwayCarol Ann Duffy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5130,"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-5129","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\/5129","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=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}