{"id":1094,"date":"2021-12-15T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/?page_id=1094"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:38:47","slug":"grasshoppers-and-kittens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshoppers and Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These poems are written after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragerenewal.org\/wpccr\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryoliver-summerday.jpg\">Mary Oliver&#8217;s, A Summer&#8217;s Day.<\/a><br \/>\nIn her poem Oliver asks big questions of the world and all the wild souls that inhabit it. She describes a Grasshopper as if in slow motion.<\/p>\n<p>We have chosen an animal we know well and tried to do the same, asking big questions and describing small details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateClanchy1\/status\/1462457736680116227\">Jemima, aged 12, has also done this with her poem, Kitten<\/a>. You can hear influences of Mary Oliver and Jemima in our work below. Thank you to both poets.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/my-cat-rosy\/\">My Cat Rosy<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Seonaid<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/the-poem-of-nature\/\">The Poem of Nature<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Grace Norma Ann<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/bird\/\">Bird<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Fraser<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/texel\/\">Texel<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;John William<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/1157-2\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;John William<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/love\/\">Love<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Paige Gillian<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/emerald-green-eyes\/\">Emerald Green Eyes<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Isobel Grace Grahamslaw<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/my-horsey-martha\/\">My Horse Martha :]<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Kayla Elizabeth<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/gizmo-the-gremlin\/\">Gizmo The Gremlin<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Finlay Ruben<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/puppy-luna\/\">Puppy Luna<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Damien Jason<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/my-animal\/\">My Animal<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;User deactivated<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/who-made-the-koala\/\">Who made the Koala<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Joel James<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/the-sliver-of-black-and-yellow\/\">The Sliver Of Black And Yellow<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Agatha<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/gun-dog\/\">Gun dog<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Roland Stephen Jonathon<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/my-floppy-dog-after-mary-oliver\/\">My Floppy Dog<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Eleanor<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These poems are written after Mary Oliver&#8217;s, A Summer&#8217;s Day. In her poem Oliver asks big questions of the world and all the wild souls that inhabit it. She describes a Grasshopper as if in slow motion. We have chosen an animal we know well and tried to do the same, asking big questions and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/my-floppy-dog-after-mary-oliver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Floppy Dog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9922,"featured_media":1095,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1094","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}