{"id":2870,"date":"2016-01-10T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:42:35","slug":"poinsettias-by-larry-d-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/poinsettias-by-larry-d-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Poinsettias by Larry D. Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thompson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2871 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thompson.jpg\" alt=\"thompson\" width=\"627\" height=\"439\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thompson.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thompson-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thompson-624x437.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 627px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 627\/439;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Poinsettias<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Larry D. Thomas<\/p>\n<p>in Texas greenhouses<br \/>\nare grown<br \/>\nby the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Though men tend them<br \/>\nin the light,<br \/>\nstooping in their midst<\/p>\n<p>like sowers<br \/>\nin fields of blood,<br \/>\nonly in weeks<\/p>\n<p>of ink-black<br \/>\ndarkness, happens<br \/>\ntheir radiant red.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several award-winning collections of poetry. As If Light Actually Matters: New &amp; Selected Poems, the most comprehensive and definitive collection of his poetry to date, was issued by Texas Review Press (Texas A&amp;M University Press Consortium) in Spring 2015 (http:\/\/www.tamupress.com\/product\/As-If-Light-Actually-Matters,8115.aspx).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several award-winning collections of poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2871,"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-2870","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\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}