{"id":921,"date":"2012-10-09T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=921"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:54:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:54:38","slug":"religious-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=921","title":{"rendered":"Religious Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I interpret religion here in the widest possible sense to include any reflection of the human condition. This distinguishes it, to some extent, from <a title=\"Political Poetry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=882\">Political Poetry<\/a> and <a title=\"Palestine Poetry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=925\">Palestine Poetry<\/a>. I make no claims to great poetic ability. I use poetry as a way to express ideas succinctly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/My-Unitarian-Home.pdf\">My Unitarian Home<\/a>. Written 21st February 2010 for an exhibition at Brighton Unitarian Church called &#8216;Unitarian Voices&#8217;. This was mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/In-the-Mirror.pdf\">In the Mirror<\/a>. Written 1st March 2010, and what I see is five images fighting with each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sonnet-on-Spring.pdf\">Sonnet on Spring<\/a>. Written 12th April 2010, in which I reflect on the annual spirit of renewal and my changing attitude to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-World-of-Spirit.pdf\">The World of Spirit<\/a>. Written 17th May 2011 in defence of religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Good-Companions.pdf\">Good Companions<\/a>. Written 1st August 2011 for our annual Poetry Service at Brighton Unitarian Church. The two companions are Hope and Doubt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Birth-of-a-Boy.pdf\">Birth of a Boy<\/a>. Written 15th November 2011, this is about the wonder of birth and the uncertainty of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Time-of-My-Life.pdf\">The Time of My Life<\/a>. Written 20th August 2012 for the Poetry Group Service on 2nd September at Brighton Unitarian Church. The theme was &#8216;time&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interpret religion here in the widest possible sense to include any reflection of the human condition. This distinguishes it, to some extent, from Political Poetry and Palestine Poetry. I make no claims to great poetic ability. I use poetry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-921","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/921\/revisions\/1798"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}