{"id":7411,"date":"2020-08-02T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2020-08-02T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T10:20:18","slug":"pools-of-longing-a-poem-by-sara-l-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/pools-of-longing-a-poem-by-sara-l-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Pools of Longing. A Poem by Sara L Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pools of Longing: July 9th, 03:11am. Editor’s note, I believe the Lockdown on swimming pools in UK, has temporarily been lifted & it is now possible to book in advance a time slot, however, the way things are going on there at present, it’s anybody’s guess how long it will last<\/em><\/p>\n

 
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\nThat it might come back to me, that sweet sensation,
\nWhen i would reach out my arms across the cool light blue ripples
\nand push off from the side.
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\nThen would i glide
\nout across the water, as a white crane glides across the sunset,
\nas a white cloud hurries brightly on a warm southerly breeze.
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\nThere are trees
\nwhen I go walking; butterflies and wild flowers too. They seem
\ncomfort enough for a short time, in parklands and along the lanes.
\n 
\nThere are trains
\nI may never ride on, there are buses I am still rethinking,
\nThere is time enough for drinking in the the cafes and the bars;
\n 
\nBut oh my stars,
\nwhat would I give to go back swimming,
\ngliding weightless once again, free as the birds that skim the sky.
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\nSara Louise Russell, aka PinkyAndrexa, is a UK poet and poetry ezine editor, specialising particularly in sonnets, lyric-style poetry and occasionally writing in more modern styles. She founded Poetry Life & Times<\/em> and edited it from 1998 to 2006, when she handed it over to Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospide; Robin now runs it as Editor from Poetry Life & Times <\/em>at this site. Her poems and sonnets have been published in many paper and online publications including Sonnetto Poesia, Mindful of Poetry<\/em> and Autumn Leaves<\/em> a monthly Poetry ezine from the late Sondra Ball. Her sonnets also currently appear in the recently published anthology of sonnets Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/em>. She is also one of the first poets ever to be published on multimedia CD ROMs, published by Kedco Studios Inc.; the first one being \u201cPinky\u2019s Little Book of Shadows\u201d<\/em>, which was featured by the UK\u2019s national newspaper The Mirror<\/em>, in October 1999. (Picture link for Mirror article) Angel Fire<\/a><\/em>
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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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Pools of Longing: July 9th, 03:11am. Editor’s note, I believe the Lockdown on swimming pools in UK, has temporarily been lifted & it is now possible to book in advance a time slot, however, the way things are going on there at present, it’s anybody’s guess how long it will last     That it … 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":[808,796,366,401,43,65],"tags":[907,908,552,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411"}],"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=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}