{"id":148,"date":"2012-06-03T01:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2020-05-07T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:33:17","slug":"butterfly-upon-a-stone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/poetry\/butterfly-upon-a-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Upon a Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Butterfly upon a stone<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One on dusty wings has flown<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One has weathered on its own<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Both pass through this world alone<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Butterfly lives unaware<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of what a gift it is to fly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Never questions where or why<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wanders by without a care<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alive for but the briefest flight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then forever into night<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The hardest and the softest meet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One whose day is short and sweet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One that time can scarce defeat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Both their cycles are complete<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stone that\u2019s sifted from the seam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rolls along an ancient bed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Never born and never dead<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Never knowing hope or dream<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Almost motionless, but free<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For close to an eternity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Coloured wings on weathered clay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One tastes life for just a day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One slowly erodes away<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Both are changing in their way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Butterfly upon a stone One on dusty wings has flown One has weathered on its own Both pass through this world alone &nbsp; Butterfly lives unaware Of what a gift it is to fly Never questions where or why Wanders by without a care Alive for but the briefest flight Then forever into night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-148","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/1648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hullyjoe.com\/andrew-hull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}