{"id":5330,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5330"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"thoughts-while-paddling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/thoughts-while-paddling\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts While Paddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Thoughts While Paddling<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 30, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA bright Lakeland spring tumbles out of the gully<br \/>\nAnd sings to the stones that its glad to be free.<br \/>\nIt flows through a scene that no troubles can sully,<br \/>\nBeginning its quest to discover the sea.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny stream falls to a clear mountain pool,<br \/>\nWhere dippers are washing the night from their eyes,<br \/>\nThen hurries to study its lessons in school<br \/>\n&#8220;The history of rivers beneath England&#8217;s skies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The rill and its siblings will grow ever stronger,<br \/>\nAs boiling and churning they fall from the hills.<br \/>\nThrough tarns filled with fishes the journey grows longer,<br \/>\nPast bleak limestone crags, down precipitous thrills.<\/p>\n<p>The greys of its birthplace now brighter and greener,<br \/>\nMerge seamlessly into the beauty all round,<br \/>\nAs mile after mile it&#8217;s becomming serener<br \/>\nThe babbling chime&#8217;s now a deep, richer sound.<\/p>\n<p>At last it grows up and flows out of its valley,<br \/>\nDown to the bay filled with waders and boats.<br \/>\nTraversing the flats where the tides dilly dally,<br \/>\nWhere seagulls chase shadows and red seaweed floats.<\/p>\n<p>All over the world there are similar stories,<br \/>\nOf sparkling brooks that traverse other lands.<br \/>\nThey each see their share of disasters and glories<br \/>\nThat finish as ripples on holiday sands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts While Paddling by cricketjeff on March 30, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A bright Lakeland spring tumbles out of the gully And sings to the stones that its glad to be free. It flows through a scene that no troubles can sully, Beginning its quest to discover the sea. The tiny stream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330\/revisions\/6178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}