{"id":29277,"date":"2015-06-09T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29277"},"modified":"2015-06-07T21:56:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T09:56:39","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/09\/the-tuesday-poem-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: On The Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>standing<br \/>\non the edge<\/p>\n<p>light falls<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>away<\/p>\n<p>cry out<br \/>\nvoice lost<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>beneath<br \/>\na white sky<br \/>\nshout downwards<br \/>\ncount<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>the silence<\/p>\n<p>a single echo<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span>back<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back, I featured <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/garden-peas-mendels-law-1866-by-helen-bascand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garden peas (Mendel\u2019s Law, 1866)<\/a>, a poem by Helen Bascand. I noted Helen&#8217;s passing on April 27, and that I had been privileged to be a member of the same poetry group as Helen for a number of years. This was one of the first poems I worked on with Helen and the other members of the group, so it feels timely to share it with you today.<\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"TuesPoem\" 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\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>standing on the edge light falls &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.away cry out voice lost &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.beneath a white sky shout downwards count&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.the silence a single echo &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;back . \u00a9 Helen Lowe &#8212; A few weeks back, I featured Garden peas (Mendel\u2019s Law, 1866), a poem by Helen Bascand. I noted Helen&#8217;s passing on April 27, and that I had [&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-29277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29277","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=29277"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29284,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29277\/revisions\/29284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}