{"id":14750,"date":"2012-07-10T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=14750"},"modified":"2012-07-08T20:10:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T08:10:59","slug":"tuesday-poem-north-reprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/tuesday-poem-north-reprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;North&#8221; Reprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>homes<br \/>\nwhite timbered in the south<br \/>\ngive way to brown-red<br \/>\nin mid and north \u2013<br \/>\navenues of birch trees<br \/>\nserried lakes<\/p>\n<p>an elk<br \/>\nruns through deep winter<br \/>\nthe night train flares<br \/>\nthrough cuttings \u2013<br \/>\ninferno cast across jagged firs<br \/>\nfrozen earth<\/p>\n<p>rushes headlong<br \/>\ninto spring \u2013 a pied crow<br \/>\nsolitary<br \/>\nabove a grey field<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Published in Bravado 14<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>This poem came up in an email conversation with a friend in Finland over the weekend, so it seemed a good time to reprise it here on the blog. Although I should add \u2014 conscientiously \u2014 that it was written about a journey to Arjeplog in the north of Sweden (not Finland), which lies just south of the Arctic circle, and my subsequent return to Stockholm in the south.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the <strong>Quill<\/strong> <strong>icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North homes white timbered in the south give way to brown-red in mid and north \u2013 avenues of birch trees serried lakes an elk runs through deep winter the night train flares through cuttings \u2013 inferno cast across jagged firs frozen earth rushes headlong into spring \u2013 a pied crow solitary above a grey field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14755,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}