{"id":2560,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2560"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"how-to-fall-for-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/how-to-fall-for-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fall for a poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> How to fall for a poet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nNot looking for love when I first saw the lines<br \/>\nThat she wrote when her muse was at play<br \/>\nBut the words on the screen were the sun as it shines<br \/>\nIn the heat of a bright summers day<br \/>\nThe form of her verse was quite foreign to me<br \/>\nBut it stole all my reason away<br \/>\nAnd the words that I read in her sweet poetry<br \/>\nAre all of my reason to stay<\/p>\n<p>And now in my bed before ever I rise<br \/>\nI see if she&#8217;s something to say<br \/>\nThe price of a day without food for my eyes<br \/>\nIs much higher than I want to pay<br \/>\nSo I found a love in the words of a verse<br \/>\nA love that will never decay<br \/>\nI am charging for her with no thought of reverse<br \/>\nWith a muse of my own making hay<\/p>\n<p>And we fence on the screen in a passionate match<br \/>\nOur weapons salute with touchee<br \/>\nPouring image and form into words we dispatch<br \/>\nTo our lovers, our foe in this fray<br \/>\nThe kiss of a simile full on the lips<br \/>\nIs as sweet as a fragrant bouquet<br \/>\nAnd if into poetry something else slips<br \/>\nThen this poet will never say nay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to fall for a poet by cricketjeff on March 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Not looking for love when I first saw the lines That she wrote when her muse was at play But the words on the screen were the sun as it shines In the heat of a bright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2560","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=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2560\/revisions\/8946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}