{"id":21240,"date":"2013-07-02T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21240"},"modified":"2013-07-01T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T08:07:27","slug":"tuesday-poem-godwitting-by-bella-boyd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/tuesday-poem-godwitting-by-bella-boyd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “Godwitting” by Bella Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Godwitting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wing out wilde bells,<\/p>\n

restrain your dogs<\/p>\n

spring harbingers clock in<\/p>\n

sing of Limosa Lapponica,<\/p>\n

fingers of Charadriiformes,<\/p>\n

waders from the 16th<\/sup> C<\/p>\n

flying in shrink wrapped<\/p>\n

bedraggled<\/p>\n

foraging for molluscums crustaceans in<\/p>\n

shallows shining estuary,<\/p>\n

where spring is peppered with<\/p>\n

sewage and salted sea<\/p>\n

wring out concerns,<\/p>\n

for these summer tourists<\/p>\n

pilot 11,000 Ks<\/p>\n

trinkets to people twin share.<\/p>\n

Roosting bibs a ruddy red,<\/p>\n

waiting wind streams<\/p>\n

homing Artic breeding grounds<\/p>\n

godwitting on refuel<\/p>\n

in yellow seas<\/p>\n

.
\n\u00a9 Bella Boyd<\/p>\n

First published in The Press
\nReproduced here with permission.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

No sparrows this week, but another bird poem — Godwitting<\/em> from fellow Christchurch poet, Bella Boyd: enjoy!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Godwitting Wing out wilde bells, restrain your dogs spring harbingers clock in sing of Limosa Lapponica, fingers of Charadriiformes, waders from the 16th C flying in shrink wrapped bedraggled foraging for molluscums crustaceans in shallows shining estuary, where spring is peppered with sewage and salted sea wring out concerns, for these summer tourists pilot 11,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240","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=21240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21244,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions\/21244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}