{"id":931,"date":"2021-08-10T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=931"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:07:56","slug":"shaping-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=931","title":{"rendered":"Shaping Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(for Barbara Hepworth)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Strong hands applied<br \/>\nwith passion to<br \/>\nmute stone, turns<br \/>\nit into song.<\/p>\n<p>A lifelong love<br \/>\nhollows womb-like<br \/>\nwood and stone<br \/>\nto beauteous lines.<\/p>\n<p>Her place carved<br \/>\ninto art&#8217;s memory;<br \/>\nthe cost chiselled<br \/>\ninto her heart.<\/p>\n<p>Threads taut across<br \/>\nan open wound,<br \/>\ntouch grief and<br \/>\njoy, her family.<\/p>\n<p>In St. Ives church,<br \/>\nMother Mary holds<br \/>\nher infant&#8217;s head,<br \/>\nto her cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara&#8217;s lost son<br \/>\nin Mary&#8217;s hands,<br \/>\nforever held by<br \/>\na loving gaze.<\/p>\n<p>History loves art<br \/>\nas monuments;<br \/>\nnot counting pain<br \/>\ncut into stone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=1046\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(for Barbara Hepworth)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Strong hands applied<br \/>\nwith passion to<br \/>\nmute stone, turns<br \/>\nit into song.<\/p>\n<p>A lifelong love<br \/>\nhollows womb-like<br \/>\nwood and stone<br \/>\nto beauteous lines.<\/p>\n<p>Her place carved<br \/>\ninto art&#8217;s memory;<br \/>\nthe cost chiselled<br \/>\ninto her heart.<\/p>\n<p>Threads taut across<br \/>\nan open wound,<br \/>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=931#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shaping Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<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-931","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}