{"id":33842,"date":"2016-12-20T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33842"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T02:12:31","slug":"tuesday-poetry-christmastide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/tuesday-poetry-christmastide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poetry: Christmastide"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walks<\/a>

“A tide of summer…”<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Christmastide<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Christmas\u2014and we
\nlike so many others
\nare washed north
\non a tide of summer,
\nour route signposted
\nby pohutakawa,
\nall flowering late
\nagainst a mirage
\nof cabbage trees,
\ndusty in the heat
\nthat shimmers
\nabove melting tar\u2014
\nthe whole country baking
\nas the nation makes
\nits annual pilgrimage
\nof Christmas and New Year:
\n“Good to see ya,” we say,
\nor simply “Mate”, pouring out
\na cool one before we sit
\ndown together, buoyant
\nwith the sunshine
\nand the colour,
\nthe high tide of summer.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Although there is a sea allusion to this poem, I will officially take it as “time out” from my “sea” theme, in favour of Christmas.<\/p>\n

And it is definitely the season of this sort of travel for many of us — if a little more daunting for those traversing the northern half of the South Island post the Kekerengu Fault quakes.<\/p>\n

Take care in all your journeyings, my friends, and travel safely.<\/p>\n

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Christmastide Christmas\u2014and we like so many others are washed north on a tide of summer, our route signposted by pohutakawa, all flowering late against a mirage of cabbage trees, dusty in the heat that shimmers above melting tar\u2014 the whole country baking as the nation makes its annual pilgrimage of Christmas and New Year: “Good […]<\/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-33842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33842","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=33842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33863,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33842\/revisions\/33863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}