{"id":11648,"date":"2018-12-21T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/winter-solstice\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:58:35","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2>\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><u>Poem for the Winter Solstice <\/u><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;One morning<br \/>\nyou raise the east window blinds <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">and there<br \/>\nis the sun, hunched on the horizon, <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">doing its<br \/>\nbest to break free, shunting aside <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">a few<br \/>\nclouds as it hoists itself in readiness to skate <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">a frigid<br \/>\nrink of sky, firing that cloud layer <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">with<br \/>\ndeceptive warmth, an intense roseate glow.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">This is <i>winter<br \/>\nmorning<\/i>, you say to yourself, <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">but then<br \/>\nyou realize \u2014 and it comes as a shock \u2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">that the<br \/>\nsun has risen so far south, you feel <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">your house<br \/>\nhas been wrenched a quarter-twist <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">to the<br \/>\nright while you slept. You check your watch \u2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">migod, it\u2019s<br \/>\ncoming nine o\u2019clock. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">When did<br \/>\nthis happen?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The wall<br \/>\ncalendar tells you it\u2019s December, <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">but<br \/>\nsomething deep within you has clung<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">to the<br \/>\nlingering warmth of snowless autumn.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The body<br \/>\ndeplores this retreat towards the dark,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">the dimming<br \/>\ndays, the physical affront of cold. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Already,<br \/>\nunseen crevices within us are busy<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">re-programming<br \/>\nthe spirit for spring.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdailypoem.com\/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp;\u00a9 byGlen Sorestad.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Used with the author\u2019s permission.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wishing you a great shortest day of the year &#8211; it&#8217;s only getting brighter from here!<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem for the Winter Solstice &nbsp;One morning you raise the east window blinds and there is the sun, hunched on the horizon, doing its best to break free, shunting aside a few clouds as it hoists itself in readiness to skate a frigid rink of sky, firing that cloud layer with deceptive warmth, an intense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[985,1684,1739],"tags":[1742,1743,1744],"class_list":["post-11648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-2-es","category-poetry-es","category-winter-es","tag-poetry-es","tag-shortest-day-of-the-year-es","tag-winter-solstice-es","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11651,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}