{"id":2581,"date":"2014-07-14T02:33:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:48:25","slug":"birthplace-of-the-resistance-by-clara-challoner-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/birthplace-of-the-resistance-by-clara-challoner-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthplace of the Resistance by Clara Challoner Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Birthplace of the Resistance<\/h2>\n

by Clara Challoner Walker<\/p>\n

In soft vanilla, melted morning dew,
\nEncouraged by a tender velvet blow,
\nHydrangeas foam and froth in pastel cool
\nAnd hollyhocks stretch taut in rattling row.<\/p>\n

A melon\u2019s papier mach\u00e9 shell keeps safe
\nWithin her orange flesh, eternal fla me .
\nA yellow acrid mist of old betrayal
\nExcoriates with bitter, barbed-wire shame.<\/p>\n

Electric swallows\u2019 arcs shred ozone clear,
\nGreen potagers ruled corrugated straight,
\nA broken family refused to hear,
\nWhile soaring buzzards\u2019 orange eyes predate.<\/p>\n

Three Messieurs\u2019 spades with rusty blades sharp tipped
\nTheir filigree Mesdames sit steely lipped.
\n###<\/p>\n

Clara Challoner Walker, the mother of two grown up children, cast aside the corporate life in January this year, to become a writer. She divides her time between Yorkshire and The Charente, locations which have so far inspired a novel, several poems and a couple of short stories. She has four cats, loves knitting and reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clara Challoner Walker, the mother of two grown up children, cast aside the corporate life in January this year, to become a writer. She divides her time between Yorkshire and The Charente, locations which have so far inspired a novel, several poems and a couple of short stories. She has four cats, loves knitting and reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}