{"id":6760,"date":"2015-12-23T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-two-poems-by-terry-laskey\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:00:49","slug":"writers-weir-two-poems-by-terry-laskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-two-poems-by-terry-laskey\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Weir: Two poems by Terry Laskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHANGING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BY TERRY LASKEY<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My body is changing; I see it every day<br \/>My fingers a little knottier and my hair more grey<br \/>Where has all my hair gone that once was on my head<br \/>My scalp all pink and showing \u2014 I feel a little dread<br \/>I feel a little stiffer, aches and pains now abound<br \/>It isn\u2019t quite as easy now to get up off of the ground<br \/>Crows feet accentuate my smiling eyes<br \/>And I hold back my faint sad sighs<br \/>Do I dislike this new body that I find myself inside?<br \/>No, will always love this evolving woman<br \/>No matter what I find<br \/>There is no perfection, on earth or in the sky<br \/>I just embrace what is now and wave the blues goodbye!<\/p>\n<p>I feel timeless<br \/>I sense eternity swirling around me<br \/>And I smile<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WINTER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BY TERRY LASKEY<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to drift softly into quiet reflective gratitude<br \/>Pondering the mysteries of existence and the universe<br \/>reminding ourselves that we are but stardust<br \/>and this is the great adventure<br \/>leading to the next<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terry Laskey writes: I am a professional gardener and call my business The little Gardener. I have been a resident of Juneau for 39 years and love the city and enjoy my clients. When I\u2019m not gardening I am dancing or playing music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANGING BY TERRY LASKEY &nbsp; My body is changing; I see it every dayMy fingers a little knottier and my hair more greyWhere has all my hair gone that once was on my headMy scalp all pink and showing \u2014 I feel a little dreadI feel a little stiffer, aches and pains now aboundIt isn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}