{"id":2919,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2919"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-breezes-blow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-breezes-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"The breezes blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The breezes blow<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe summer sun caresses all the leaves on all the trees<br \/>\nAnd flowers bob and weave to taste the air<br \/>\nThe branches on the bushes dance with pleasure at the breeze<br \/>\nAnd the blackbird picks up worms for young to share<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting watching cricket and the sun is on my face<br \/>\nI&#8217;m dreaming of the girl I want to squeeze<br \/>\nWith summer sun and cricket then I know the world&#8217;s in place<br \/>\nMy dreams are sent to reach her on the breeze<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea beside me and the thoughts of her to tease<br \/>\nThe pleasure of the game to make me smile<br \/>\nThe swallows overhead are making patterns in the breeze<br \/>\nHer eyes are in my daydreams all the while<\/p>\n<p>My slice of walnut bread is being eyed-up by the birds<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve covered it in home-made jam to please<br \/>\nWhile in my head I&#8217;m covering the girl I love with words<br \/>\nAnd feeling all her love is in the breeze<\/p>\n<p>Each day like this in summer&#8217;s sure to put me at my ease<br \/>\nAnd send my spirit soaring high above<br \/>\nThe best in life is cricket, sun and birdsong on the breeze<br \/>\nFor any man whose dreaming of his love.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI am not sure about the &#8220;breeze&#8221; in every stanza, what do you think? It seemed<br \/>\nlike a fun idea, and I rather like the overall feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breezes blow by cricketjeff on June 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The summer sun caresses all the leaves on all the trees And flowers bob and weave to taste the air The branches on the bushes dance with pleasure at the breeze And the blackbird picks up worms for young to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919","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=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8589,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919\/revisions\/8589"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}