{"id":28117,"date":"2024-07-25T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=28117"},"modified":"2024-07-26T01:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T01:16:05","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-summer-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-summer-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Summer Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet&#8217;s Note: The puppies were upset &#8211; they woke my Muse at 0245 &#8211; My Muse woke me\u2026 if only she were flesh and blood\u2026<br \/>\nThe storm soon followed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Arrias<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Summer Storm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dogs awake with a start,<\/p>\n<p>Agitated, they sense what I cannot,<\/p>\n<p>Outside the humidity is complete,<\/p>\n<p>Stormy weather, wet and hot.<\/p>\n<p>Hours to go until the dawn,<\/p>\n<p>Now, on the roof the patter of rain,<\/p>\n<p>A flash of lightning, thunder follows,<\/p>\n<p>Summer storm in the wood again.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs bark and huddle close,<\/p>\n<p>The rain now drumming, drumming,<\/p>\n<p>More lightning &#8211; close, thunder rolls,<\/p>\n<p>Closer still, more storm is coming.<\/p>\n<p>Music to calm the dogs,<\/p>\n<p>Vivaldi concert for guitar,<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant flash lights the Swamp,<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic shapes, eerie, bizarre.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs bark louder, press closer,<\/p>\n<p>But it has peaked and now will quickly pjayare303ass,<\/p>\n<p>The dogs soon asleep,<\/p>\n<p>Outside first twilight o\u2019er the wet grass.<\/p>\n<p>The tree frog chorus begins again,<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant cardinal adds a touch of pomp,<\/p>\n<p>Cicadas join in the concert,<\/p>\n<p>Another summer storm in the Swamp\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet&#8217;s Note: The puppies were upset &#8211; they woke my Muse at 0245 &#8211; My Muse woke me\u2026 if only she were flesh and blood\u2026 The storm soon followed\u2026 &#8211; Arrias Summer Storm The dogs awake with a start, Agitated, they sense what I cannot, Outside the humidity is complete, Stormy weather, wet and hot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28119,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117\/revisions\/28119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}