{"id":110928,"date":"2013-09-02T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T03:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110928\/poem-view-to-a-cue\/"},"modified":"2013-09-02T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T03:22:15","slug":"poem-view-to-a-cue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110928\/poem-view-to-a-cue\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: View To A Cue"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written to the image below, our featured picture on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

It is by Portuguese artist Andres Rocha and is titled “Forgotten Places”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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VIEW TO A CUE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Off the coast of Ballantrae
\n through frothy mists, some sailors say
\n they see a ruin on a cliff
\n as their ship passes Findlay Frith<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Aboard some vessels, yarns are told
\n of bonny Scotland\u2019s days of old
\n when Pictish pride built castle walls
\n to deter Viking raiders\u2019 calls.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The ruin, it is widely thought
\n resulted from defenders caught;
\n surprised by sacking party\u2019s stealth
\n from landside, hungry to gain wealth.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Later, the fortress was attacked,
\n its walls torn down and inside sacked
\n by Anglo-Saxons\u2019 thegn assault
\n too powerful for Scots to halt.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Then lay the ruins by the coast
\n no more to tribal toastings host;
\n no lamb or beef in firepit roast,
\n though some say there\u2019s a haunt-in ghost.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright September 2nd 2013 RGD<\/font>
\n Inspired by the artpiece \u201cForgotten Places\u201d by Andres Rocha<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written to the image below, our featured picture on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. It is by Portuguese artist Andres Rocha and is titled “Forgotten Places” \u00a0 VIEW TO A CUE Off the coast of Ballantrae through frothy mists, some sailors say they see a ruin on a cliff as their ship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}