{"id":2386,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2386"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"love-is-a-two-way-street","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/love-is-a-two-way-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is a two way street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Love is a two way street<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYour love alone can guide me through the night<br \/>\nI want to spend a lifetime in your eyes<br \/>\nAnd all of this has come as great surprise<br \/>\nMy life had simply been a compromise<br \/>\nNow the way I feel is much more right<\/p>\n<p>No man alive has seen a sweeter sight<br \/>\nThe loving that I see within your face<br \/>\nYou fill for me that very special case<br \/>\nYou give me ways to see beyond the light<\/p>\n<p>I know that I have lost me in this fight<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never be the man I was before<br \/>\nYou are the lady that I must adore<br \/>\nNo-one will ever doubt me on that score<br \/>\nI never want to have the least respite<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ~~~~~~~~~~\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I never want to have the least respite<br \/>\nNo-one will ever doubt me on that score<br \/>\nYou are the lady that I must adore<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never be the man I was before<br \/>\nI know that I have lost me in this fight<\/p>\n<p>You give me ways to see beyond the light<br \/>\nYou fill for me that very special case<br \/>\nThe loving that I see within your face<br \/>\nNo man alive has seen a sweeter sight<\/p>\n<p>Now the way I feel is much more right<br \/>\nMy life had simply been a compromise<br \/>\nAnd all of this has come as great surprise<br \/>\nI want to spend a lifetime in your eyes<br \/>\nYour love alone can guide me through the night<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a sonnet, that is it is in approximately iambic pentameter rhymed abbba<br \/>\nacca addda. Oh yes and you can read it either way up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is a two way street by cricketjeff on February 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Your love alone can guide me through the night I want to spend a lifetime in your eyes And all of this has come as great surprise My life had simply been a compromise Now the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2386","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=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2386\/revisions\/9121"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}