{"id":4343,"date":"2011-03-22T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:27:47","slug":"tuesday-poem-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/tuesday-poem-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Caf\u00e9 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman
\nsips coffee
\n\u2013 makes it last<\/p>\n

avoids eye contact
\n\u2013 writes an occasional note
\nin a dog-eared book<\/p>\n

takes in
\nevery detail
\n\u2013 wrought iron palings
\nthe spring sky<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 helen lowe<\/p>\n

Published in foam:e<\/a> 1 March 2008<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>About the Poem:<\/strong> On March 18, in a further comment on my post Silent Witness<\/a>, I wrote ” … I went past Under the Red Verandah cafe today, where SpecFicNZ were having the long lunches and it was just another pile of rubble. I feel really sad because I loved that place …”<\/em><\/p>\n

Under the Red Verandah<\/a> (UtRV) was one of those places that seemed made for writers to hang out in, with a friendly, casual atmosphere and great coffee and kai (food.) Not surprisingly, I often caught up with fellow writers and other friends there or just dropped in for a coffee. Equally unsurprisingly, a few poems and other scribblings first sprang into life over those UtRV cups of coffee. This poem, Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>, was first drafted at, and is about, Under the Red Verandah so I felt it was fitting to post it as my Tuesday Poem today.<\/p>\n

Due to the exigencies of WordPress, I can’t get the original formatting to reproduce here on the blog, so have gone for a work-around. To see the original, you can still read it online here<\/a> at foam:e<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note:<\/span> The good news is that Mandy and the team are working to resurrect the UtRV business based out of the old forge at the back of the property. I really hope they can make it happen.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Blog<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caf\u00e9 The woman sips coffee \u2013 makes it last avoids eye contact \u2013 writes an occasional note in a dog-eared book takes in every detail \u2013 wrought iron palings the spring sky . \u00a9 helen lowe Published in foam:e 1 March 2008 — About the Poem: On March 18, in a further comment on my […]<\/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-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","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=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}