{"id":3924,"date":"2026-09-09T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:47:02","slug":"green-by-peter-venable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/09\/09\/green-by-peter-venable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Green&#8221; by Peter Venable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.<\/em><br>          &#8211; Vincent van Gogh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plunge my script pen into green ink:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chlorophyll flows through my veins<br>and tints each sentence. In sunlight<br>I photosynthesize. Fertility. Freshness.<br>Vincent brushed \u201cRoses\u201d in hues of<br>moss, lime, and olive greens. I recall<br>an olive grove two millennia ago.<br>I build Oz\u2019s Emerald City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">facet by facet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do I see you through green eyes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>The writer has written secular and sacred verse for many decades. He\u2019s appeared in Third Wednesday, THEMA, Prairie Messenger, The Christian Century, The Merton Seasonal, The Raven\u2019s Perch, Kakalak, and forthcoming, The Orchards Poetry Journal. He is a septuagenarian, happily married, \u201cPoppy\u201d to two granddaughters, and volunteers at a prison camp. He is at petercvenable.wordpress.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. &#8211; Vincent van Gogh I plunge my script pen into green ink: Chlorophyll flows through my veinsand tints each sentence. In sunlightI photosynthesize. Fertility. Freshness.Vincent brushed \u201cRoses\u201d in hues ofmoss, lime, and olive greens. I recallan olive grove two millennia ago.I build Oz\u2019s Emerald City facet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/09\/09\/green-by-peter-venable\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-11i","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}