{"id":1809,"date":"2017-02-01T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:57:53","slug":"letting-go-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go &#8211; a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yohanna-with-paint-on-her-face--215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yohanna-with-paint-on-her-face--215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yohanna-with-paint-on-her-face--506x705.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yohanna-with-paint-on-her-face--450x627.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yohanna-with-paint-on-her-face-.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/>My talented daughter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yohannajessup.com\/\">Yohanna Jessup<\/a>, artist, meditation instructor, wandering rose, has surprised me by becoming\u00a0a website designer. \u00a0Who knew my\u00a0right-brained child could master computer code? \u00a0While designing my own website and blog, she has instructed me to post something here to test one of her widgets, whatever those are. \u00a0So I&#8217;ve chosen to post a poem, Letting Go, written by my wife, Linda, on the occasion of our daughter&#8217;s moving away from us, lo these many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Letting Go,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>By Linda Jessup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>I watch you swiftly go<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Slipping through your youth<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>A leaf sailing down<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>A forest stream \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Past<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>A matted mass of grass<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>And snags \u2013 to catch \u2013<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Now struggling with the snare<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Now twirling on \u2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Through distant, misty dawns<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Too far for these fond eyes<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>To watch you<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Sleekly slide.\u00a0 You\u2019re gone \u2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gone<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>But in mind\u2019s eye abides<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The visions of your budding<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Bursting pride \u2013 now caught forever<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>On the branches of my love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My talented daughter, Yohanna Jessup, artist, meditation instructor, wandering rose, has surprised me by becoming\u00a0a website designer. \u00a0Who knew my\u00a0right-brained child could master computer code? \u00a0While designing my own website and blog, she has instructed me to post something here to test one of her widgets, whatever those are. \u00a0So I&#8217;ve chosen to post a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[18,118,117,116],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranch-stories","tag-linda-jessup","tag-poetry","tag-sacred-spaces","tag-yohanna-jessup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}