{"id":7325,"date":"2024-10-29T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/?page_id=7325"},"modified":"2024-12-08T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T14:57:30","slug":"and-the-busy-waves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/and-the-busy-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"And the busy waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"7325\" class=\"elementor elementor-7325\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4bca9a7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4bca9a7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3951b1\" data-id=\"c3951b1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e22b94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7e22b94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And the busy waves ...<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b7a4ad0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b7a4ad0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f246c3c\" data-id=\"f246c3c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a872e34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"a872e34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d7a268 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9d7a268\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This was written in 2011. The month, March. The location was Laugharne in S.Wales. The much visited home of (and memorial to), Dylan Thomas. The occasion was our wedding anniversary.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef7e359 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"ef7e359\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b13983 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4b13983\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10f4892\" data-id=\"10f4892\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4028e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c4028e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the busy waves,<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lap, chat and slap<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7357 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-1360x2048.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC_0174-1-1-scaled.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>on this whimpering, grey veil of a morning, mid-March in the wet rain.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the seeping wet rain, past shed and boathouse, walking steadily upwards,<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under bowed and broken trees<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that pose like questions to another age.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under branches offering succour to raven, crow and curlew.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The writhing, brain-creased mudflats, fast the reaching tide as slow mists muffle<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the boundaries of sky and sea &#8230;<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7382 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Image-2-300x112.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Image-2-300x112.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Image-2.jpeg 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and we &#8230; we, in our anniversary walk, urge aching bones along moss<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">draped, mist moist, sponge paths,<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soaking up stories of lovers lost and long gone.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The track sighs in response to each certain footfall and the sighs merge with the shushed waves and<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sharp calls of the coastal birds.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We sit, grazing on solitude,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230; connected.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e256006 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"e256006\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/other-writings\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">back to scribblings<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the busy waves &#8230; This was written in 2011. The month, March. The location was Laugharne in S.Wales. The much visited home of (and memorial to), Dylan Thomas. The occasion was our wedding anniversary. \u00a0 And the busy waves, lap, chat and slap on this whimpering, grey veil of a morning, mid-March in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7325","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7917,"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7325\/revisions\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygardentalkstome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}