{"id":10908,"date":"2020-01-15T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T16:01:44","slug":"the-starry-nights-over-lanark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10908","title":{"rendered":"The starry nights over Lanark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the big, clear Lanark skies that provide the canopy of a million stars each night<\/p>\n<p>a comforting blanket offering up the knowledge that there\u2019s infinitely more<\/p>\n<p>in this universe then our daily preoccupations<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All is quieted under the twinkling lights &#8211; absorbed in the space between here and there<\/p>\n<p>and that steely silence carries me beyond where I stand now to who I want to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems too perfect. I can\u2019t remain still and transfixed in this serenity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I pull back from the numbing expanse and stumble forward into my darkness,<\/p>\n<p>with thoughts of my next day and the challenge of becoming that new man<\/p>\n<p>and filling my world with the warmth and the light of just one unfathomable star.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 This poem was written in Spring 2013, since our family\u2019s move to Almonte. It is one poem in a compilation of verse just released under the title of\u00a0<\/em>Midstep \u2013 A dozen poems towards where I want to be<em>. To get your copy of\u00a0<\/em>Midstep<em>, contact chrisg.george@gmail.com.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640.jpg 640w\" alt=\"walking-349991_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIDSTEP \u2013 A dozen poems towards where I want to be<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the big, clear Lanark skies that provide the canopy of a million stars each night a comforting blanket offering up the knowledge that there\u2019s infinitely more in this universe then our daily preoccupations &nbsp; All is quieted under the twinkling lights &#8211; absorbed in the space between here and there and that steely silence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10910,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}