{"id":3150,"date":"2020-05-14T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:16:10","slug":"winner-hope-simpson-you-taught-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"Winner: Hope Simpson, <h6>&#8216;You Taught Me&#8217;<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Simpson&#8217;s poem &#8216;You Taught Me&#8217; is the recipient of a 2020 <a title=\"Content related to Newcastle Poetry Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?tag=newcastle-poetry-competition\">Newcastle Poetry Competition<\/a>\u00a0Young People&#8217;s Prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Taught Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You taught me that:<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow,<\/p>\n<p>The birds will still sing<\/p>\n<p>And, the sea waves will still swell<\/p>\n<p>And, sunrise will come again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I watch<\/p>\n<p>You watch<\/p>\n<p>The adolescent magpies fledge<\/p>\n<p>(Agitated and sensitive)<\/p>\n<p>No longer reliant, yet,<\/p>\n<p>They will return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You showed me a healthy family,<\/p>\n<p>You gave me an infancy rich with freedom,<\/p>\n<p>You told me to remember the things<\/p>\n<p>You taught me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To wake and listen <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To the endless birdsong;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To travel and sing,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Too, like the sparrows;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To do your best<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To prove you can;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To give everything<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To the ones you love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hope Simpson<\/em><\/strong><strong>, 17<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Simpson&#8217;s poem &#8216;You Taught Me&#8217; is the recipient of a 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition\u00a0Young People&#8217;s Prize. &nbsp; You Taught Me &nbsp; You taught me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[680,664,604,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}