{"id":2949,"date":"2014-11-19T16:38:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:38:34","slug":"greenfinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/11\/19\/greenfinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenfinch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Greenfinch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Catherine Eunson worked hard behind the scenes during the recent Irish visit. And when she wasn’t cooking she was composing poetry – or taking pictures! So here’s another Island Voice – this one Orkney-born…<\/p>\n

Greenfinch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopping along bright-eyed with my bonnie beak,
\nYou stopped and you saw me
\nThrough your kitchen window,
\nMe, the bird in the grass
\nVibrant, like a Key lime envoy
\nWith neat feathered edges, yellow and black,
\nDo you remember?<\/p>\n

Yes, I remember,
\nI remember very vividly, yet
\nI forget the rest of that day,
\nAnd much of the next,
\nThough both contained plenty of goodness,
\nIndustrious hours spent in the kitchen,
\nChicken pie, apple crumble, carrots and cranachan hours,
\nThree soups, six gingerbreads, spuds and cheese scones.<\/p>\n

All the Irish visitors were out walking
\nWhile I steamed, clattered, mixed and rolled,
\nSometimes like a thing possessed,
\nAll the while minutes dropped through the sieve,
\nIt was over and done with in no time.
\nBut the salmon pie was cooked through,
\nAnd didn\u2019t they just love it?<\/p>\n

So you were the herald, a \u00e9in bhig ghlais,
\nYou were their leader,
\nThat huge migratory flock of moments,
\nThose welcome winter visitors!
\nSl\u00e1n abhaile, agus
\nFad saoil agat!<\/p>\n

Catherine Eunson, November 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Catherine Eunson worked hard behind the scenes during the recent Irish visit. And when she wasn’t cooking she was composing poetry – or taking pictures! So here’s another Island Voice – this one Orkney-born… Greenfinch Hopping along bright-eyed with my bonnie beak, You stopped and you saw me Through your kitchen window, Me, the bird … Continue reading Greenfinch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-ugc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}