{"id":3691,"date":"2019-04-02T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:23:59","slug":"crossing-the-brightman-street-bridge-by-cynthia-elder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/crossing-the-brightman-street-bridge-by-cynthia-elder\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Brightman Street Bridge by Cynthia Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3694 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bridge-poem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"450\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bridge-poem.png 810w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bridge-poem-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bridge-poem-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bridge-poem-630x350.png 630w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 810px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 810\/450;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Crossing the Brightman Street Bridge<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Cynthia Elder<\/p>\n<p>Dropping down,<br \/>\na honey bright ball<br \/>\nready to bounce,<br \/>\nthe sun,<br \/>\nas I drove toward cirrus clouds<br \/>\ndripping in neon,<br \/>\nreminded me of those<br \/>\nwho\u2019d been blinded as they walked<br \/>\na rough-hewn road,<br \/>\ndoubting God.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Elder lives on the edge of Hundred Acre Cove in Barrington, Rhode Island, with her husband and their increasingly empty nest. Her poems have appeared in <em>The Allegheny Review, Dog River Review, Plainswoman<\/em>, and elsewhere. She has work forthcoming in <em>Young Ravens Literary Review and Eudaimonia Press Mental Health Anthology<\/em>. Cynthia has worked in nonprofit social service organizations for 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Elder lives on the edge of Hundred Acre Cove in Barrington, Rhode Island, with her husband and their increasingly empty nest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3694,"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-3691","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\/3691","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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}