I love sleeping in. In fact, ‘love’ is really not a strong enough word for the pleasure I derive from simply not having to get out of bed on any given morning. You can judge my enthusiasm for my job by the fact that I prefer to get up early each weekday morning to go do it rather than turning over, slapping the off button on the alarm with a flailing hand and burrowing back into my pillow. I’m not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in starting off each day on the right side of the bed. As a writer, here’s a poem I recently found which is my new morning song of inspiration.<\/p>\n
What you should do each morning
\nby Robin Mellor<\/b><\/p>\n
Peel back the curtains from your eyes,
\nthrow off the covers from your tongue.
\nStretch your words out along the verandah
\nand greet the fresh morning.<\/p>\n
Open the windows of chance.
\nLet the light breeze of something happening
\nblow through the cobweb corners of your head,
\nthe dusty stairs of thinking.<\/p>\n
Eat from a deep bowl of ideas for breakfast,
\ntake a large speckled wish
\nwith fingers of buttered dawn birdsong.<\/p>\n
Pull a poem on to each foot, wear
\na painted shirt and symphony waistcoat.
\nAnd in your shoes soled with imagination
\ngo out and meet the day.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
More great poetry can be found at<\/b>: Poetry Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n Currently Coveting<\/b>: Laini’s Holiday Ladies<\/a>, especially this one<\/a> and this one<\/a>. So pretty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love sleeping in. In fact, ‘love’ is really not a strong enough word for the pleasure I derive from simply not having to get out of bed on any given morning. You can judge my enthusiasm for my job by the fact that I prefer to get up early each weekday morning to go do it rather than turning over, slapping the off button on the alarm with a flailing hand and burrowing back into my pillow. I’m not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in starting off each day on the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-poetrythursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}