{"id":211,"date":"2025-03-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=211"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:02:14","slug":"cupids-bow-by-joel-everett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Cupid&#8217;s Bow by joel everett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published 22\/01\/2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cupid&#8217;s Bow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Joel Everett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your Cupid&#8217;s bow arched upwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">falls slowly like blossom &#8211; pink<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the giggle recedes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with my layman&#8217;s share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Divine laughter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eros, comes to its end;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and Atlas loosens his grip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You look now upon humility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with one beaded eye &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a seeing stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaves had begun to fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">outside. Their fiery hues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in the crucible &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">frost burnt edges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like skirt brown pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the sky a misty rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and sweet scent &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">extant decay in heaps of yellow,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">brown, as cork, red,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as summery dusk yawning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">green, as the grass below our feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Cupid&#8217;s bow arched upwards<\/p>\n<p>falls slowly like blossom &#8211; pink<\/p>\n<p>the giggle recedes<\/p>\n<p>with my layman&#8217;s share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}