{"id":12591,"date":"2026-06-11T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:21:28","slug":"pied-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12591","title":{"rendered":"A Poem of Found Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pied Beauty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Gerard Manly Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0637-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0637-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0637-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A favourite <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have just finished reading \u201cLandmarks\u201d by Robert MacFarlane. It is a requiem to lost words. The author has tried to slow the slipping away of words particularly for nature by listing them in between wonderful stories of people who have sought to preserve the concept itself. \u201cPebbles on the Beach\u201d by      for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"888\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0621-1-888x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0621-1-888x1024.jpg 888w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0621-1-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0621-1-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0621-1-1332x1536.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0621-1.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pied Pansies <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poet Gerard Manly Hopkins is mentioned in Landmarks as a person who preserves words and in some cases creates words. \u201cFreckled\u201d is a favourite. Perhaps not new but in a new combination or sense. I remember my father remarking on a time when I was about 5 years old and I had described sunlight on a lake as \u201cspreckled.\u201d I have found kindred souls in both authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0616-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0616-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0616-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0616-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0616.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Campfire Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All my examples of couple-colour come from my garden. It is my way of living this poem. It is my landscape \u201cplotted, pieced\u2026..and pied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0633-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0633-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0633-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0633-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_0633.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pied plots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poetry praised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pied Beauty Gerard Manly Hopkins I have just finished reading \u201cLandmarks\u201d by Robert MacFarlane. 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The author has tried to slow the slipping away of words particularly for nature by listing them in between wonderful stories of people who have sought to preserve the concept itself. \u201cPebbles on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12598,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}