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1
A story about
                an old poet
    and his cottage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2
A dream of an old mariner
                lost in Wales
    adrift on his words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3
A memory of
                a young boy
    on his maiden voyage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4
A memory of
                innocence
    lost at sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5
A line on a chart
                between a girl
    and loneliness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6
A communion
                between an affair
    and marriage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7
A vigil by a wife
                waves on a beach
    memory of a ship’s wake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8
A night on watch
                with a ghost
    of a girl above the horizon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9
A night at sea
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a sailor dreams of heaven\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10
A tear on the cheek of a girl
                writing urgently of love
    letters unseen for weeks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11
A union of words
                sadly disrupted
    by world time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12
A memory in the Welsh sky
                a poet sees dolphins
    in a bow wave of cloud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13
A murmur
                between life
    and rhyme<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14
A dialogue
                between time and
    loss<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15
A line of verse
                between loneliness
    and memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16
A reflection of a man sitting
                beside a fire
    memories in embers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17
A poem about
                an old sailor
    in his cottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1A story about                an old poet    and his cottage 2A dream of an old mariner                lost in Wales    adrift on his words 3A memory of                a young boy    on his maiden voyage 4A memory of                innocence    lost at sea 5A line on a chart                between a girl    and loneliness 6A communion                between an affair    and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}