{"id":2737,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2737"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:46:32","slug":"my-warning-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-warning-song\/","title":{"rendered":"My warning song!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My warning song!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI saw a perfect vision in the night.<br \/>\nA goddess clad in white who worshipped me,<br \/>\nI never saw a more beguiling sight.<br \/>\nNo mortal could compare with such as she.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI wanted her with all my heart and soul,<br \/>\nFor her I&#8217;d cast aside my ev&#8217;rything.<br \/>\nWithout this vision I could not be whole<br \/>\nAs she drew near I heard the angels sing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA dreadful witch appeared before my eyes<br \/>\nHer razor teeth and talons ripped my heart<br \/>\nSuch evil wrapped in such a fair disguise<br \/>\nMy endless march of death now has to start\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNow all of you must listen to my song<br \/>\nBefore a lovely vision does you wrong!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nA pontianak is a Malay spirit believed to be the ghost of a woman who dies in<br \/>\nchildbirth. She is in many ways the analogue of the Succubus, appearing as a<br \/>\nbeautiful woman then killing a man or attaching herself to him to slowly draw<br \/>\nout his life force during an act of love.<br \/>\nThe pontianak in this painting, and hence in my poem, clearly believes in a<br \/>\nmore direct approach and has made off with my heart, still beating.<\/p>\n<p>Picture credit<br \/>\nPontianak by luciole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My warning song! by cricketjeff on May 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved \u00a0 I saw a perfect vision in the night. A goddess clad in white who worshipped me, I never saw a more beguiling sight. No mortal could compare with such as she. \u00a0 I wanted her with all my heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2737","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2737","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=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2737\/revisions\/8770"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}