{"id":2328,"date":"2010-11-11T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2010-11-11T17:54:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T04:54:26","slug":"something-about-auckland-photos-and-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/11\/11\/something-about-auckland-photos-and-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Something About Auckland … Photos and Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Journey's start; the downtown Ferry Building<\/p><\/div>\n

OK, here’s the photos and the poem. And for all those of you who say—but you haven’t mentioned Auckland’s traffic yet: no, I haven’t. But you see, for me, that’s a very long way from being all there is to Auckland and just for the moment, I’m focusing on some of that other, really good stuff. Shocking, I know, for a “one-eyed Cantabrian”, but sometimes you just have to call it the way you see it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Passing Rangitoto Island<\/p><\/div>\n

So here’s the poem:<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Something About Auckland<\/h4>\n

Shelly Bay, Midwinter 2003<\/em><\/p>\n

There definitely is something
\nabout Auckland,
\nwith the sea lapping in
\nalong a hundred little bays
\nand blue
\nshining all the way out
\ninto the Gulf, with its scattering
\nof islands,
\nturquoise misting into cobalt
\nand the sun sparkling
\non every wave edge
\ncurving in
\nto a pohutakawa-tangled
\nshore — boats bob, voices
\ncalling one to the other
\nin that last, little rush
\nof landfall, unexpected echo
\nof summer.<\/p>\n

(c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

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Fine fare at Te Whau<\/p><\/div>\n

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The view from Te Whau, toward Rangitoto and Auckland<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, here’s the photos and the poem. And for all those of you who say—but you haven’t mentioned Auckland’s traffic yet: no, I haven’t. But you see, for me, that’s a very long way from being all there is to Auckland and just for the moment, I’m focusing on some of that other, really good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","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=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}