{"id":2362,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2362"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"how-i-write","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/how-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"How I write."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> How I write.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 3, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn my head my thought&#8217;s in rhyme<br \/>\nSo poetry is all the time<br \/>\nI just sit and ask my muse<br \/>\nHe throws lines and lets me chose<\/p>\n<p>Pick the rhythm that I need<br \/>\nThen copy down at reading speed<br \/>\nThen just check the rhyme and meter<br \/>\nTittivate to make it sweeter<\/p>\n<p>Learning new styles means I read<br \/>\nSo muse can push it out at speed<br \/>\nOne problem that I see of late<br \/>\nMy muse just will not punctuate<\/p>\n<p>This little voice I hear inside<br \/>\nHas given me a lovely ride<br \/>\nSometimes he opts to go away<br \/>\nAnd then I just mope round all day<\/p>\n<p>So I have learned to cal lhim back<br \/>\nBy launching &#8220;Limerick attack&#8221;<br \/>\nHe is stubborn, I persist<br \/>\nIt is one game he can&#8217;t resist!<\/p>\n<p>When I find I&#8217;ve written well<br \/>\nI float and feel my ego swell<br \/>\nBut when a poem isn&#8217;t good<br \/>\nI start again, just like you should!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nNot great I&#8217;m afraid will ask him for another version later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I write. by cricketjeff on February 3, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In my head my thought&#8217;s in rhyme So poetry is all the time I just sit and ask my muse He throws lines and lets me chose Pick the rhythm that I need Then copy down at reading speed Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2362","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=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9146,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2362\/revisions\/9146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}