{"id":985,"date":"2020-07-27T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=985"},"modified":"2024-02-16T06:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:01:52","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=985","title":{"rendered":"Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>A poem is the capture and subsequent distillation of a moment, a thought, or an experience into its essential components; it is an emotion&#8217;s purest form as sensed and understood by the eye, mind and heart of the poet. Poems can therefore be very personal and treasured; but like all valuable gifts, they need to be shared to achieve their full value. Here are a few of my own distilled moments. I hope you, too, can glimpse the magic behind them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Robert Jaggs-Fowler, 2013<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The following are just a small selection of my poems. Most can be found in my first two published collections, <em>A Journey with Time<\/em> and <em>On Quarry Beach<\/em>. From time to time, further poems are posted to my blog pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morning on Lough Eske, Donegal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My Neighbour&#8217;s Lawn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Haiku from the Caribbean<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">End of the Line<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Artist and the Dancer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Remembrance Day Parade<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"robertjaggsfowler\" data-color=\"#40DCA5\" data-emoji=\"&#x2615;\"  data-font=\"Cookie\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000000\" data-font-color=\"#ffffff\" data-coffee-color=\"#FFDD00\" ><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem is the capture and subsequent distillation of a moment, a thought, or an experience into its essential components; it is an emotion&#8217;s purest form as sensed and understood by the eye, mind and heart of the poet. Poems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}