{"id":2437,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2437"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-picture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"The picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The picture<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBroken crayons all around,<br \/>\nThe picture incomplete.<br \/>\nNothing left of solid ground,<br \/>\nTo tread beneath my feet.<\/p>\n<p>An empty bed in morning light<br \/>\nDead flowers wilt away.<br \/>\nAs evening melts straight into night<br \/>\nI wish I&#8217;d helped you stay.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all we wanted then<br \/>\nBut now I yearn for you<br \/>\nThe picture started way back when<br \/>\nBefore we bid adieu<\/p>\n<p>Your tender voice in morning ears<br \/>\nAnd then your smiling face<br \/>\nTo chase away all present fears<br \/>\nA morning to embrace<\/p>\n<p>If I could just rewrite our lives<br \/>\nTo take a certain track<br \/>\nA different choice of men and wives<br \/>\nThe love that two friends lack<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I had held you tight<br \/>\nSo I could do so still<br \/>\nNo empty bed for me at night<br \/>\nA chance to drink my fill<\/p>\n<p>Assaulted by a cheerful sound<br \/>\nI knew I&#8217;d never hear<br \/>\nA change in mood that&#8217;s so profound<br \/>\nTo joy from dismal drear<\/p>\n<p>A box of crayons new and bright<br \/>\nA picture drawn by two<br \/>\nAs one through every day and night<br \/>\nI am complete in you<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n&#8220;1. Broken crayons&#8221; With a touch of &#8220;9. Empty bed&#8221; and a few &#8220;10. Dead flowers&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture by cricketjeff on February 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Broken crayons all around, The picture incomplete. Nothing left of solid ground, To tread beneath my feet. An empty bed in morning light Dead flowers wilt away. As evening melts straight into night I wish I&#8217;d helped you stay. It wasn&#8217;t [&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-2437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437","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=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions\/9072"}],"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=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}