{"id":1507,"date":"2009-12-18T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:03:01","slug":"poem-pas-de-deux-for-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/poem-pas-de-deux-for-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Pas de deux for Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While quoting poetry by <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/12\/poem-lines-for-a-friend-1948-1964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Dransfield<\/a>, here is another of his fine poems, along with Caspar David Friedrich&#8217;s painting, <em>Cape Arkona at Sunrise<\/em> (1803):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Pas de deux for Lovers&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nTo wake<br \/>\nand go<br \/>\nwould be so simple.<br \/>\nMorning ought not<br \/>\nto be complex.<br \/>\nThe sun is a seed<br \/>\ncast at dawn into the long<br \/>\nfurrow of history.<br \/>\nYet<br \/>\nhow the<br \/>\nfirst light<br \/>\nmakes gold her hair<br \/>\nupon my arm.<br \/>\nHow then<br \/>\nshall I leave,<br \/>\nand where away to go. Day<br \/>\nis so deep already with involvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nThomas W. Shapcott (Editor) [1970]:&nbsp; <em>Australian Poetry Now<\/em>. Melbourne, Australia:&nbsp; Sun Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While quoting poetry by Michael Dransfield, here is another of his fine poems, along with Caspar David Friedrich&#8217;s painting, Cape Arkona at Sunrise (1803): &#8220;Pas de deux for Lovers&#8221; To wake and go would be so simple. Morning ought not to be complex. The sun is a seed cast at dawn into the long furrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m12","d18","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}