{"id":2525,"date":"2016-02-06T08:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2016-02-06T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T08:01:50","slug":"my-way-is-in-the-sand-flowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/my-way-is-in-the-sand-flowing\/","title":{"rendered":"My Way Is In The Sand Flowing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Photo
Photo of the writer Samuel Beckett, whose poem inspired these few lines…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

” My way is like the sand flowing
\n between the shingle and the dune”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sand it flows on the seashore
\nHere today, but for how long?
\nHe who says the sands of life
\nNever change: he is wrong
\nSure they may look the same
\nAs they did here yesterday
\nBut flowing waves and blowing winds
\nHave moved more on, and some away.
\nAnd my way, it is as Beckett wrote
\nIs like sand and shingle flowing from the dune
\nBlown hard by the winds of life
\nCaressed by lifes tides as they dance in accordance with the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

” My way is like the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune” The sand it flows on the seashore Here today, but for how long? He who says the sands of life Never change: he is wrong Sure they may look the same As they did here yesterday …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,621,233],"tags":[71,2659,2658,1145,990,2654,2655,2656,2657],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-poetry","category-inspirations-from-quotations","category-writers","tag-advice-for-life","tag-life-flying-by","tag-lifehack","tag-passing-of-time","tag-quote","tag-samuel-becket","tag-sand","tag-sand-flowing","tag-take-life-easy","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-EJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2189,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-money-in-saving-lives\/","url_meta":{"origin":2525,"position":0},"title":"No Money in Saving Lives","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The world in places a desert Where water does not flow, Water flows down so deep Where no mere well drilling rig can go. 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