{"id":2541,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2541"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"on-the-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/on-the-beach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On the beach<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn roll the waves from the sea<br \/>\nRolling toward you and me<br \/>\nEach washes the sand as it goes<br \/>\nTrying to tickle our toes<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re standing and leaning on me<br \/>\nAs we gaze at the swell on the sea<\/p>\n<p>A seagull lets cry from the air<br \/>\nTelling his mate he is there<br \/>\nBack with supplies for their brood<br \/>\nThe chicks always want some more food<br \/>\nI&#8217;m warm knowing that you are there<br \/>\nTogether we&#8217;re taking the air<\/p>\n<p>At last there&#8217;s a wave with the range<br \/>\nTo bring us the feeling so strange<br \/>\nOf sand slipping out from our feet<br \/>\nA tickling subtle and sweet<br \/>\nI too am now feeling quite strange<br \/>\nCould this be the end of my range?<\/p>\n<p>Barefooted we stand on the sand<br \/>\nTied to the edge of the land<br \/>\nThe blue of the sky and the sea<br \/>\nWe look at the world that lies free<br \/>\nI wonder if I&#8217;ll ever land<br \/>\nFrom my dreaming of walking on sand<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\ntrying to make a meter and form that feels like soft waves lapping up and down<br \/>\na beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the beach by cricketjeff on March 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In roll the waves from the sea Rolling toward you and me Each washes the sand as it goes Trying to tickle our toes You&#8217;re standing and leaning on me As we gaze at the swell on the sea A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541\/revisions\/8967"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}