{"id":2898,"date":"2013-09-03T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2013-09-03T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T04:24:40","slug":"the-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"the monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"stock-footage-a-monarch-butterfly-in-a-man-s-hand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stock-footage-a-monarch-butterfly-in-a-man-s-hand.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2899\" alt=\"stock-footage-a-monarch-butterfly-in-a-man-s-hand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stock-footage-a-monarch-butterfly-in-a-man-s-hand.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/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\">the monarch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You rest upon my hand<br \/> a monarch butterfly<br \/> gently flexing your wings<br \/> such fragile beauty<br \/> perfectly designed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you wait<br \/> for that precise moment<br \/> a gentle zephyr<br \/> a sun warmed kiss<br \/> a call from\u00a0 the universe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I scarcely breathe<br \/> my eyes fixed upon you<br \/> longing to keep you forever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>love catches in my throat<\/p>\n<p>but you are not mine<br \/> and never were<\/p>\n<p>In this brief time together<br \/> we taught each other<br \/> love<br \/> beauty and truth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now<br \/> I must let you go<br \/> trust<br \/> that one day<br \/> you will return<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet while you still remain<br \/> the merest touch upon my skin<br \/> you have my whole attention<br \/> I dare not breathe or blink an eye<br \/> lest you disappear<\/p>\n<p>and I realise with great sorrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have not had time<br \/> to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Amanda Edwards<\/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-2898","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\/2898","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=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}