{"id":2086,"date":"2011-04-29T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2011-04-29T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:50:45","slug":"friday-poem-by-thom-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/friday-poem-by-thom-gunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poem &#8212; by Thom Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nasturtiums_crawl.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nasturtiums_crawl-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"nasturtiums_crawl\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2087\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Nasturtium<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Born in a sour waste lot<br \/>\nYou labored up to light,<br \/>\nBunching what strength you&#8217;d got<br \/>\nAnd running out of sight<br \/>\nThrough a knot-hole at last,<br \/>\nTo come forth into sun<br \/>\nAs if without a past,<br \/>\nDone with it, re-begun.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now street-side of the fence<br \/>\nYou take a few green turns,<br \/>\nNimble in nonchalance<br \/>\nBefore your first flower burns.<br \/>\nFrom poverty and prison<br \/>\nAnd undernourishment<br \/>\nA prodigal has risen,<br \/>\nSelf-spending, never spent.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIrregular yellow shell<br \/>\nAnd drooping spur behind&#8230;<br \/>\nNot rare but beautiful<br \/>\n&#8212; Street-handsome &#8212; as you wind<br \/>\nAnd leap, hold after hold,<br \/>\nA golden runaway,<br \/>\nStill running, strewing gold<br \/>\nFrom side to side all day.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/109\">Thom Gunn<\/a> 1929-2004<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasturtium Born in a sour waste lot You labored up to light, Bunching what strength you&#8217;d got And running out of sight Through a knot-hole at last, To come forth into sun As if without a past, Done with it, re-begun. Now street-side of the fence You take a few green turns, Nimble in nonchalance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/friday-poem-by-thom-gunn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Poem &#8212; by Thom Gunn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1209],"tags":[1589,1588,2643,1587],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}