{"id":2391,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2391"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"advice-to-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/advice-to-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice to a poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Advice to a poet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAdvice to a poet<\/p>\n<p>Paint in a poem a place that you love<br \/>\nShow us your world as it&#8217;s seen from above<br \/>\nTell us in rhyme of the things that you do<br \/>\nGive to the reader the story of you<\/p>\n<p>Dream us a dream of the life that you crave<br \/>\nA hero of childhood so manly and brave<br \/>\nThe form doesn&#8217;t matter, the art is the thing<br \/>\nPut up a poem that makes a heart sing<\/p>\n<p>Some like fond sadness, it&#8217;s whimsy for me<br \/>\nTell us the tales of the visions you see<br \/>\nWeave us a spell that we&#8217;ll never forget<br \/>\nBut really just pen us your best poem yet<\/p>\n<p>Dive to the depths of the way that you think<br \/>\nShow us the nectar that you love to drink<br \/>\nGuide us with fondness where-ever you go<br \/>\nPut all your wishes and fancies on show<\/p>\n<p>A taste of the food that you think of as home<br \/>\nA step on the path where you wish you could roam<br \/>\nThe beach where your sandcastles washed in the tide<br \/>\nA glimpse of the you that you think you should hide<\/p>\n<p>Some like nostalgia, a love song for me<br \/>\nSing us the songs that would let you fly free<br \/>\nWeave us a spell that we&#8217;ll never forget<br \/>\nBut really just pen us your best poem yet<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOriginally written to encourage entries to a series of contests run by Sue<br \/>\nCardwell and me. Now editted to not include names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice to a poet by cricketjeff on February 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Advice to a poet Paint in a poem a place that you love Show us your world as it&#8217;s seen from above Tell us in rhyme of the things that you do Give to the reader the story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2391","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=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2391\/revisions\/9116"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}