{"id":2668,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2668"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"passionspromise-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/passionspromise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PassionsPromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> PassionsPromise<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn a hospital in Texas is the toughest poet on site<br \/>\nIn a fight to death with cancer she still finds the time to write<br \/>\nShe knocks out a shadow sonnet (with acrostic, double rhymed)<br \/>\nTakes her just on twenty minutes, but she didn&#8217;t know I timed.<\/p>\n<p>Temperature one O five, gets up to go to work<br \/>\nI said to cut her legs off, even that won&#8217;t make her shirk<br \/>\nAbused and beaten, left for dead, now fights for what is right<br \/>\nPerfect mother, lover, friend, writes poems half the night<\/p>\n<p>Protective of her sister, other people and all kids<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll be first in line to help you when your life is on the skids<br \/>\nThere are people who don&#8217;t love her, bloody idiots I say<br \/>\nThere is something I must tell you, she&#8217;s the better man today!<\/p>\n<p>She is standing up to cancer, to infection and her life<br \/>\nWhen all she really wanted was to be a happy wife<br \/>\nYou asked about survival and for writes on strength and stuff<br \/>\nAnd all that I could think to write was Tory, God, you&#8217;re tough!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nNeeds a lot of work!!!<br \/>\nBut The prompt said &#8220;write me now.&#8221;<br \/>\nGetting there now, but when you feel a poem deeply have to take time to stand<br \/>\nback and look. It will be right before judging<\/p>\n<p>PassionsPromise is in hospital with a temperature of 105.3. Had a large<br \/>\nsecondary tumour removed a couple of days ago. And all she seems to spend the<br \/>\nrest of the time doing is writing impossibly complex poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PassionsPromise by cricketjeff on April 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In a hospital in Texas is the toughest poet on site In a fight to death with cancer she still finds the time to write She knocks out a shadow sonnet (with acrostic, double rhymed) Takes her just on twenty minutes, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2668\/revisions\/8840"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}