{"id":6633,"date":"2014-04-28T17:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2014-04-28T17:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:41:19","slug":"glimpse-of-solace-the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2014\/04\/glimpse-of-solace-the-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse of solace: The Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I spent some time photographing flowers I purchased almost two weeks ago. The old roses captured my attention; they drew me in more than blooms in their prime. The petals were almost like skin. Today a FB post led me to “The Rose”<\/strong> a poem by Jean Valentine<\/strong> (from the book Little Boat<\/strong><\/em>, pubilshed in 2007 by Wesleyan University Press<\/strong>).\u00a0 The poem is copyrighted so I won’t quote the whole thing here; it’s the first lines that killed me. Read the entire poem at The Poetry Foundation<\/strong><\/a> site.<\/p>\n

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The Rose \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dt>\n

The Rose \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h3>\n

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\u201ca labyrinth,<\/strong><\/span>
\n as if at its center,<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n god would be there\u2014”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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From the poem “The Rose”<\/strong> by Jean Valentine<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

From the book <\/span>Little Boat <\/em>(Wesleyan University Press, 2007)
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This weekend I spent some time photographing flowers I purchased almost two weeks ago. The old roses captured my attention; they drew me in more than blooms in their prime. The petals were almost like skin. Today a FB post led me to “The Rose” a poem by Jean Valentine (from the book Little Boat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,280,2125,2127,39,48,13,1277,7,16,888,2126,32,2128],"class_list":{"0":"post-6633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-a-glimpse-of-solace","7":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","8":"tag-glimpse-of-solace","9":"tag-jean-valentine","10":"tag-little-boat","11":"tag-photography","12":"tag-poem","13":"tag-poetry","14":"tag-roses","15":"tag-solace","16":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","17":"tag-the-poetry-foundation","18":"tag-the-rose","19":"tag-weighed-words","20":"tag-wesleyan-university-press","21":"entry","22":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}