{"id":4304,"date":"2014-04-30T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2014-04-30T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T04:24:58","slug":"springtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4304","title":{"rendered":"Springtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"lady_ciel___spring_time_by_temesasu-d6363di\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lady_ciel___spring_time_by_temesasu-d6363di.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4305\" alt=\"lady_ciel___spring_time_by_temesasu-d6363di\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lady_ciel___spring_time_by_temesasu-d6363di-250x250.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lady_ciel___spring_time_by_temesasu-d6363di-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lady_ciel___spring_time_by_temesasu-d6363di-150x150.png 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<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Springtime<\/p>\n<p>A hoary old man, winter lingers, untill<br \/>he grows tired and relents, he gives way<br \/>to Lady Spring. She yawns and stretches<br \/>to longer light, the sweet air of spring<br \/>kisses winter and waves him goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>She wears a new dress and recites poetry.<br \/>From southern oceans her zephyr blows<br \/>breathes new life into naked trees: bursts<br \/>dormant sticky buds and opens translucent<br \/>green leaves, adorns cherry apple and pear.<\/p>\n<p>A spring bride, in her train, fragile blossom<br \/>forms many tiny fruitlets. The Forsythia<br \/>spreads rays of sunshine. The frogs, free<br \/>from hybernation, wrestle in the pond<br \/>an orgy, on which their survival depends .<\/p>\n<p>When V skeins of geese fly honking towards<br \/>Romney marsh my heart greets Lady Spring<br \/>The ladybirds settle like tiny red blisters<br \/>on the fertility of a flourishing nettle patch.<br \/>The proud cock pheasant swaggers down<\/p>\n<p>the lane, a drab hen bouquet in his wake.<br \/>The ra-ta-tat-tat&#8230; of woodpecker&#8217;s verve,<br \/>echoes percussion over gently undulating<br \/>green hills, where lambs gambol, the ewes<br \/>chew grass, while two llamas stand guard.<\/p>\n<p>A farmer plants seeds trusts in summer sun,<br \/>autumns harvest.Spring dances in our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gael Bage<\/blockquote>\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-4304","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\/4304","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=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}