{"id":1079,"date":"2021-04-22T19:07:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:36:56","slug":"certain-for-peter-mckinnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2021\/04\/22\/certain-for-peter-mckinnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain (for Peter McKinnon)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-23-2021-Peters-laughing-eyes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-23-2021-Peters-laughing-eyes.jpg 713w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-23-2021-Peters-laughing-eyes-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-23-2021-Peters-laughing-eyes-604x128.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Certain%20for%20Peter%204-23-2021.m4a?_t=1619118613\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Certain<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>We live on Earth, a certain span of time<br>but no one knows how long that time will be<br>and like a poet searching for a rhyme<br>sometimes the rhymes don\u2019t match up perfectly<br>sometimes they fall, like raindrops to the sea.<br>\u00a0<br>Our \u2018Other Half\u2019 rambles somewhere \u2018out there\u2019<br>we roll the dice ~ gamble on every find<br>we might, smitten, glance chances of answered prayers<br>some fickle tomes written without a care<br>reflecting how our two halves intertwine.<br>\u00a0<br>We all keep on questing throughout our lives<br>for Lovers or partners, husbands and wives:<br>a Blessed Soul Mate must await <strong><em>somewhere<\/em><\/strong>.<br>We continue the search, mostly in vain,<br>for one who could Love us and not cause pain.<br>\u00a0<br>Love slumbers lost while we lumber through days.<br>Grace calmly surrenders inside Love\u2019s blaze.<br>We perch on a limb of the Sacred tree<br>we pray like the rivers rushing to sea.<br>Alone, we struggle through our darkened maze.<br>\u00a0<br>A myth is a myth if it suits just fine.<br>But hearts will ache, and Love will always pine<br>for our \u2018Other Half\u2019 ~ as Plato explains:<br>are we ever freed from Love\u2019s phantom chains?<br>Can comfort find us where two Loves align?<br>\u00a0<br>I searched for Love and I searched fruitlessly.<br>My futile attempts left me sadly grieved<br>feeling as if I\u2019d been boldly deceived<br>swearing, for no one, ever again would<br>my heart open, no matter where I stood.<br>\u00a0<br>I quieted down and I bowed my head<br>and thought how my life seems a Golden Thread<br>and knowing that, I vowed ever, instead<br>to work the stitches of my days now left<br>a most lovely tapestry: warp and weft<br>and when I looked up to my road ahead<br>I saw you.\u00a0 There you were.\u00a0 Here you are: YOU.<br>\u00a0<br>We find one another, perfectly timed.<br>The poems we conjure, steep, perfectly rhymed<br>throughout our lives, when we think no one cares<br>and think none sees our mean human affairs<br>I know that\u2019s not true<br>for I have found you.<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes. 4-23-2021<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}