{"id":3112,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3112"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:19:17","slug":"the-beach-or-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-beach-or-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"The beach or the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The beach or the woods<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA touch of summer sunshine, after days of cold and grey<br \/>\nAnd so my heart is lifted to the skies.<br \/>\nA burst of children&#8217;s laughter signals in a better day<br \/>\nWhen I can see the sunshine in your eyes.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll walk and talk together on a path between the trees<br \/>\nOr run across the golden sand that&#8217;s playing with the seas.<\/p>\n<p>A burst of blackbird&#8217;s love song, after days of drumming rain<br \/>\nThe bluetits busy fighting for some seeds.<br \/>\nA kiss of sunlight in your hair and I forget the pain,<br \/>\nA day with you will answer all my needs.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll sit and drink together under dappled shade of trees<br \/>\nOr picnic on the sand dunes as they gaze across the seas.<\/p>\n<p>The rustle of the dancing leaves that stretch to catch the light<br \/>\nAnd play like naughty children in the wind.<br \/>\nYou pulled away and twirled for me to revel in the sight,<br \/>\nI whistled and was pleased to see you grinned.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll lay upon a grass bank and kiss beneath the trees<br \/>\nOr wrap ourselves in all we feel, make love beside the seas.<\/p>\n<p>The evening nears, the day can rest, the flowers can settle down<br \/>\nThe daisies and the buttercups can close.<br \/>\nWhile barefoot we can run around, a million miles from town<br \/>\nAnd feel the warmth of summer with our toes.<br \/>\nThen lose ourselves in passion just two lovers in the trees<br \/>\nOr make some carnal music on a beach by summer&#8217;s seas.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a better way to spend a lunchtime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beach or the woods by cricketjeff on August 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A touch of summer sunshine, after days of cold and grey And so my heart is lifted to the skies. A burst of children&#8217;s laughter signals in a better day When I can see the sunshine in your [&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-3112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3112\/revisions\/8398"}],"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=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}