{"id":25941,"date":"2020-09-03T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25941"},"modified":"2020-09-03T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:58:12","slug":"i-love-the-thames-at-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25941","title":{"rendered":"I love the Thames at Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020090301.jpg\" alt=\"The Thames at Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nOn 6th March 2008, The Abingdon Herald reported that the <em>Abingdon Share a Poem group<\/em> had produced a book for the <em>Abingdon Arts Festival<\/em>. The poetry group were 10 year old and still going strong. In September 2020 they are still going &#8211; if a little older.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020090302.jpg\" alt=\"The Thames at Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAt the September 2020 meeting of the group, on Zoom yesterday, Justin Gosling read one of his poems &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thames at Abingdon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the Thames at Abingdon \u2013<br \/>\nThe wintry roar below the weir;<br \/>\nThe angry mud race swirling past<br \/>\nSt Helen\u2019s round to Culham Reach;<br \/>\nAnd then the surge to burst its banks<br \/>\nAnd seize the Isle of Andersey<br \/>\nAnd all the fields to Culham Bridge \u2013<br \/>\nTriumphant arching salmon leap<br \/>\nFrom river to resplendent lake.<\/p>\n<p>I love the lazy summer Thames,<br \/>\nPlacid now between its banks,<br \/>\nWith empty cartons, coots and cans<br \/>\nAnd boats and bottles bobbing by,<br \/>\nAnd regal swans<br \/>\nIn stately eddies drifting down<br \/>\nBetween the meadows and the town.<\/p>\n<p>I love the cool autumnal Thames,<br \/>\nStill beneath the thin white mist;<br \/>\nAnd far, yet near, the cooling towers,<br \/>\nEach with its plume of shining cloud;<br \/>\nThe guardsman poplars, tall and bare,<br \/>\nTurned copper by the sinking sun.<br \/>\nStormy, empty, busy, calm\u00a0 &#8211;<br \/>\nI love the Thames at Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0Justin Gosling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6th March 2008, The Abingdon Herald reported that the Abingdon Share a Poem group had produced a book for the Abingdon Arts Festival. The poetry group were 10 year old and still going strong. In September 2020 they are still going &#8211; if a little older. At the September 2020 meeting of the group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-about-abingdon","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}