{"id":475,"date":"2020-11-11T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/?p=475"},"modified":"2020-12-18T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:30:21","slug":"haiku-journal-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/haiku-journal\/haiku-journal-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku Journal \u2013 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
in tall pine gloom\nOctober\u2019s filtering sun\nforms pools fathoms down<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Behold the Moon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a movement in Tai-Chi called \u2018Behold the Moon.\u2019 You slowly turn your torso and extend both arms sideways at an angle of 45% with lower hand palm upwards and upper hand palm downwards. This morning, as I did Tai-Chi on the lawn, I turned to the left, pointing straight at the rising sun filtering through some trees. Slowly turning to the right I pointed to a half moon filtering through a morning mist. Behold the moon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my barefoot contact\nwith tide-washed virgin sands:\na lasting imprint<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And, for a change, a fuller length poem rather than a haiku:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grey Wolf Haunting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Echoing down the centuries
Hear the last wolf\u2019s lonely call.
Emptied land grey wolf haunting.
Out of balance and unwhole,
Emptied land grey wolf wanting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In these mountains, moors and glens,
At the margins, at the edge,
Demonized and killed,
Grey wolf, the hunter hunted,
Was so cruelly banished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amidst ash and birch which match
Flecked coat flits wolf\u2019s spirit.
In brindled mountain flanks where
Mists ghost towards grazing deer
Lies a story yet unfinished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wolf lives on in keening winds,
Rolling hills like loping run,
Deer-cropped plants but seldom seen –
Glimpse the shadow of a dream,
Aching absence of the vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grey wolf pads through our psyche,
The hunger, the gnawing need
For contact with otherness,
For wilderness and wildness
And nature replenished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Echoing down the centuries
Hear the last wolf\u2019s lonely call.
Emptied land grey wolf haunting.
Out of balance and unwhole,
Emptied land grey wolf wanting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
in tall pine gloom October\u2019s filtering sun forms pools fathoms down Behold the Moon There\u2019s a movement in Tai-Chi called \u2018Behold the Moon.\u2019 You slowly turn your torso and extend both arms sideways at an angle of 45% with lower hand palm upwards and upper hand palm downwards. This morning, as I did Tai-Chi on … Continue reading Haiku Journal \u2013 7<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}