{"id":2507,"date":"2013-08-04T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2013-08-04T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T06:02:41","slug":"hidden-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"51105f28896b8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/51105f28896b8.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2508\" alt=\"51105f28896b8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/51105f28896b8-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/51105f28896b8-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/51105f28896b8-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Hidden Places<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Sintered words and pleasant places bide <br \/> In every secret desire <br \/> Over the shadows of our solemn times <br \/> Before the word became this fire.\u200e <\/p>\n<p> Hidden places have burdened once with hope <br \/> Another patient toil to bide me through the wait <br \/> No hope would ever hope to last this long <br \/> Perhaps this toil yet once to change this fate.\u200e <\/p>\n<p> \u200e Eventual surcease and the shadow of fear <br \/> Then to renew the hope I have found,\u200e <br \/> Reason put aside as the joyful hope is here,\u200e <br \/> And passion\u2019s secret whisper echoes once around.\u200e <\/p>\n<p> Eleven we have counted; now the toll is twelve <br \/> Left out of the shadow to find the secret places <br \/> Into where we have passed this new hope to delve,\u200e <br \/> Zephyrs cool the brow of sweat upon those faces.\u200e <\/p>\n<p> Almost all is gone; we search our soul again,\u200e <br \/> Begin the search again for that we hope to find <br \/> Eventually indeed, an anodyne for pain <br \/> That was not the thing we had in our mind.\u200e <\/p>\n<p> Hidden places now revealed for their secret trove,\u200e <br \/> Dawn in this forest as the shadow clears,\u200e <br \/> Almost we had hoped; almost we had fought <br \/> Vainly through the echoing hall of years <br \/> In the ocean of fright the shapeless ship would rove,\u200e <br \/> Eventually we come as the shadow nears,\u200e <br \/> Searching hidden places; there is the hope we sought.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Richard A. Jones<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}