{"id":251,"date":"1986-08-19T13:33:27","date_gmt":"1986-08-19T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:09:29","slug":"ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/08\/19\/ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever tired,<br \/>\nIn this daily framework<br \/>\nOf life,<br \/>\nThe mind wanders.<br \/>\nMine wanders down to the<br \/>\nWater&#8217;s edge.<br \/>\nWeariness then becomes<br \/>\nMy travelling companion,<br \/>\nTaking me to the water&#8217;s edge,<br \/>\nWhere I may look out,<br \/>\nAnd let the seas calm<br \/>\nAnd caress, and soothe<br \/>\nMy soul, as only the<br \/>\nSea can do.<\/p>\n<p>And in my weary daydreams<br \/>\nThe wandering mind<br \/>\nBecomes the wading mind,<br \/>\nGently traversing the sands,<br \/>\nCaressing the waves with<br \/>\nThe reverence they deserve,<br \/>\nFor nothing has travelled the<br \/>\nSeas like the waves.<\/p>\n<p>Out into the bright waters,<br \/>\nOut into the deep and<br \/>\nForeboding oceans.<br \/>\nFurther, till out of sight<br \/>\nOf land,<br \/>\nI become jubilant.<\/p>\n<p>Me and the sea,<br \/>\nThe waves and the sky,<br \/>\nCaressing the soul and<br \/>\nCleansing the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Stroke for stroke<br \/>\nAcross the waters,<br \/>\nAcross the waves<br \/>\nAway from any land.<\/p>\n<p>And I reel in my jubilant daydream,<br \/>\nForgetting the cold of the water,<br \/>\nForgetting I cannot swim forever,<br \/>\nForgetting that I am free<br \/>\nForgetting that I would drown<br \/>\nIf I stay forever;<br \/>\nForgetting I am sitting at a desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever tired,<br \/> In this daily framework<br \/> Of life,<br \/> The mind wanders.<br \/> Mine wanders down to the<br \/> Water&#8217;s edge.<br \/> Weariness then becomes<br \/> My travelling companion,<br \/> Taking me to the water&#8217;s edge,<br \/> Where I may look out,<br \/> And let the seas calm<br \/> And caress, and soothe<br \/> My soul, as only [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceans","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}