{"id":677,"date":"2018-09-21T06:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:58:03","slug":"sky-ku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/677\/sky-ku\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky-ku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floating out of mind<\/p>\n<p>A patchwork quilt of azures &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Holding us in place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-679\" style=\"width: 2490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/skyday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-679 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/skyday.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/skyday.png 2032w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/skyday-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/skyday-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/skyday-1024x466.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mosaic of our sky, made up of photos from across the world (Photo Credit: The SkyDayProject).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a sky-ku, inspired by the fact that today (Friday 21st September 2019) is International Sky Day, a landmark event that was initiated by The SkyDayProject in celebration of\u00a0promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of our sky.<\/p>\n<p>Sky-ku are a new form of poetry that I invented in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/skydayproject.com\/get-involved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SkyDayProject<\/a>. Inspired by the traditional Japanese haiku, sky-ku are written in celebration of the sky in all its many forms. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/skydayproject.com\/sky-ku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submit your own sky-ku here,<\/a>\u00a0and you can listen to a selection of sky-ku written by people from across the world, on this feature piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/shows\/worldview\/sky-day-2018-teaches-all-ages-to-understand-their-environment-by-looking-up\/2acd833b-2cc1-4fae-8d37-d39c1cfe0eb3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from WBEZ Chicago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating out of mind A patchwork quilt of azures &#8211; Holding us in place. \u00a0 This is a sky-ku, inspired by the fact that today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[375,2,3,87],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-poems","tag-cloud","tag-poetry","tag-science","tag-sky","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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