{"id":84758,"date":"2012-03-19T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84758\/focus-with-photo-magic-monday-piece\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:48:00","slug":"focus-with-photo-magic-monday-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84758\/focus-with-photo-magic-monday-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"INTO FOCUS (with photo) — A “Magic Monday” piece"},"content":{"rendered":"

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INTO FOCUS<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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On a day not so very different
\nfrom today or any other day
\n(though now as I look back,
\nit was rather different, I’d say),
\nI woke up unexpectedly
\nto the silence of the fog.
\nAnd on this morning,
\njust a year ago or so,
\nI found something magical
\nin that haze as it hugged
\nthe ocean’s edge
\nand me.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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All alone with the morning,
\nthe gentle music of the waves
\nbrushing against the shore
\nand my heart,
\nI heard a solitary seabird
\nwhose shriek pierced
\nthe silence as memories
\nof Long Island summers
\nand early-morning fog
\nflooded onto the canvas
\nof this California morning
\nas I walked along the beach.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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I pondered many things
\nwithin the solitude
\nof that morning a year or so ago
\nand thought it quite ironic
\nthat so much came into focus
\nwithin the magic of the fog.
\nAnd as the seacliffs tossed aside
\ntheir morning blanket of white,
\nI inhaled the peace
\nthat was left behind
\nas the gentle waves
\nstill caressed the sand
\nunderneath my feet.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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(c) barbara kausteklis 3-19-12<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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Written for CPC “Magic Monday\/
\nIs There Magic in Your Fog?”<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/82202\/magic-fog-3-18-2\/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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Thanks always for your visits and comments.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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~barb~<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INTO FOCUS On a day not so very different from today or any other day (though now as I look back, it was rather different, I’d say), I woke up unexpectedly to the silence of the fog. And on this morning, just a year ago or so, I found something magical in that haze as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[837,42,29],"tags":[63,159,4937,3909,2572,41,4],"class_list":["post-84758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","category-photography","category-poems","tag-barbara-k","tag-cpc","tag-fog","tag-magic-monday","tag-ocean","tag-photography","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84758","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=84758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}