{"id":2288,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2288"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"touching-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/touching-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Touching the sky<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA hopper stands on sunlit beach<br \/>\nA poet&#8217;s spirit in her eye<br \/>\nThe perfect verse is just in reach<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll touch the sky<\/p>\n<p>The Sun has kissed the morning sea<br \/>\nShe knows her beauty, she&#8217;s not shy<br \/>\nA poet knows the way to be<br \/>\nBeneath the sky<\/p>\n<p>Each word now falls in proper place<br \/>\nEach brand new phrase she has to try<br \/>\nA mystic smile explodes her face<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s seen the sky<\/p>\n<p>The perfect poem is not writ<br \/>\nBut words can make a strong man cry<br \/>\nEach word is now an ideal fit<br \/>\nShe wrote the sky<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nYou can find the poet in question here<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Google&#8217;s aerial pictures of her Island and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touching the sky by cricketjeff on January 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A hopper stands on sunlit beach A poet&#8217;s spirit in her eye The perfect verse is just in reach She&#8217;ll touch the sky The Sun has kissed the morning sea She knows her beauty, she&#8217;s not shy A poet knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9220,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2288\/revisions\/9220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}