{"id":3492,"date":"2017-08-17T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2017-08-17T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:59:56","slug":"mindful-seven-taylor-winchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/mindful-seven-taylor-winchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful at Seven by\u00a0Taylor Winchell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mindful<\/h2>\n

Mindful at Seven<\/h2>\n

by\u00a0Taylor Winchell<\/p>\n

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A mindful seven-year-old
\n(which is all seven-year-olds)
\ndoes not sit still and focus
\non her breath; she instead<\/p>\n

roams outside and follows
\na trail of ants to nowhere,<\/p>\n

climbs a hill of grass only to
\nroll her way back down,<\/p>\n

or rakes a pile of leaves just to
\nfall forward and let the world<\/p>\n

swallow her whole<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Taylor Winchell was born and raised in San Diego, California. He received a BS from UC Berkeley and an MS from CU Boulder. He currently works as a water resources engineer, focusing on development planning in the Southeast Asia region. His poetry and writing has appeared in Nature Writing, KQED Public Radio, The Jetset Times, and The Boulder Weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taylor Winchell was born and raised in San Diego, California. He received a BS from UC Berkeley and an MS from CU Boulder. He currently works as a water resources engineer, focusing on development planning in the Southeast Asia region. His writing has appeared in KQED Public Radio, The Jetset Times, The Boulder Weekly, and the journal of Geophysical <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t