{"id":7405,"date":"2020-07-31T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:59:17","slug":"on-never-seeing-a-blue-whale-a-poem-by-bernard-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/on-never-seeing-a-blue-whale-a-poem-by-bernard-pearson\/","title":{"rendered":"On Never seeing a Blue Whale. A Poem by Bernard Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the fetch of death
\nShould come before
\nI see you neighbour,
\nBreaching in the pacific vast,
\nForgive me, for in my
\n Book of Wonders
\nI once read that a man
\nCould stand upright
\nIn the tunnel of your veins.
\nIf only we had not stood straight at all
\nThen the best of nature would ever hear
\nWhale to whale across
\nThe great, unsullied , ocean , softly call.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Bernard Pearson<\/p>\n

 
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BERNARD PEARSON: His work appears in many publications, including; Aesthetica Magazine , The Edinburgh Review, Crossways,<\/em> In 2017 a selection of his poetry \u2018In Free Fall\u2019<\/em> was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019 he won second prize in The Aurora Prize<\/em> for Writing for his poem Manor Farm
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
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\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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  If the fetch of death Should come before I see you neighbour, Breaching in the pacific vast, Forgive me, for in my Book of Wonders I once read that a man Could stand upright In the tunnel of your veins. If only we had not stood straight at all Then the best of nature … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[906,808,796,366,401,43],"tags":[18,136,874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}