{"id":2474,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2474"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"and-talk-all-night-of-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/and-talk-all-night-of-rhyme\/","title":{"rendered":"And talk all night of rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> And talk all night of rhyme<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 9, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI want to sit and sip a drink<br \/>\nAnd talk of poetry.<br \/>\nTo lie back with a friend and think<br \/>\nBeneath a garden tree.<\/p>\n<p>I want to walk beside the sea<br \/>\nAnd gaze out at the sky.<br \/>\nWhile holding hands, just you and me,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d dream that we could fly.<\/p>\n<p>I want to sit beside a fire<br \/>\nAnd talk all night of rhyme.<br \/>\nTo feel slow building of desire<br \/>\nIn some eternal time.<\/p>\n<p>I want to learn to love again,<br \/>\nWith one who wants to share.<br \/>\nTo sing a tender love refrain<br \/>\nWhile we have time to spare.<\/p>\n<p>I have not had enough of life.<br \/>\nI want to try once more<br \/>\nWith a new lover friend or wife<br \/>\nTo make me as before.<\/p>\n<p>I want to drink some heady wine<br \/>\nAnd toast a poets health<br \/>\nWith one who values words so fine<br \/>\nPreferring them to wealth.<\/p>\n<p>While all these things I want to do,<br \/>\nAre written in my dreams,<br \/>\nBehind each one of them, is you,<br \/>\nThe object of my schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And talk all night of rhyme by cricketjeff on March 9, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I want to sit and sip a drink And talk of poetry. To lie back with a friend and think Beneath a garden tree. I want to walk beside the sea And gaze out at the sky. [&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-2474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2474","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=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2474\/revisions\/9035"}],"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=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}