{"id":2026,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2026"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-pianist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-pianist\/","title":{"rendered":"The pianist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The pianist<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 3, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAlone in the room, with his lover at last<br \/>\nRecalling the passions of times that have passed<br \/>\nWhen he&#8217;s on stage of his skill he is certain<br \/>\nBut can he perform when he closes the curtain<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s on stage his love fills each note<br \/>\nIf you go to hear him your mind starts to float<br \/>\nHis passionate music fans each listener&#8217;s desire<br \/>\nFilling their bodies with seething hot fire<\/p>\n<p>Now all that passion is focussed on one<br \/>\nCan he fill her evening with love and with fun<br \/>\nAn accelerando composed on the spot<br \/>\nA crescendo of feelings for his lady so hot<\/p>\n<p>Now that his fingers aren&#8217;t stroking the keys<br \/>\nWill he still be able to tempt and to tease<br \/>\nGlissandos performed on his lover&#8217;s fair skin<br \/>\nCan they be as soft as his music within<\/p>\n<p>His style on piano is simple and clean<br \/>\nThe man and the instrument a perfect machine<br \/>\nA man with a lover is to harder to pair<br \/>\nBut when there&#8217;s a match you just cannot compare<\/p>\n<p>So maestro take stage and begin to perform<br \/>\nPour out all your music to fill up her form<br \/>\nGive all the passion as you give when you play<br \/>\nAnd the lady you love will be certain to stay<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThis was a truly excellent poem in my head, but I just haven&#8217;t been able to<br \/>\nmake it work as I wanted. So in the end I have posted something in the hope<br \/>\nthat tomorrow I shall look at it and think &#8220;I know what&#8217;s wrong&#8221; and fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pianist by cricketjeff on November 3, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Alone in the room, with his lover at last Recalling the passions of times that have passed When he&#8217;s on stage of his skill he is certain But can he perform when he closes the curtain When he&#8217;s on stage his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9482,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2026\/revisions\/9482"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}