{"id":3130,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3130"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:39","slug":"her-death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Her Death<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe froze her soul with icy breath<br \/>\nHer final day upon this Earth<br \/>\nIt seemed that she was glad of death<br \/>\nSo calmly filled her final berth<\/p>\n<p>Her final day upon this Earth<br \/>\nMuch bleaker than her heart could stand<br \/>\nSo calmly filled her final berth<br \/>\nWith all the dignity she planned<\/p>\n<p>Much bleaker than her heart could stand<br \/>\nMuch colder than a winter&#8217;s night<br \/>\nWith all the dignity she planned<br \/>\nShe slipped away without a fight<\/p>\n<p>Much colder than a winter&#8217;s night<br \/>\nThe orders of a nameless chap<br \/>\nShe slipped away without a fight<br \/>\nA mighty vessel sold for scrap<\/p>\n<p>The orders of a nameless chap<br \/>\nIt seemed that she was glad of death<br \/>\nA mighty vessel sold for scrap<br \/>\nHe froze her soul with icy breath<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nAnother Pantoum, a form for which I have no love. Modern European poets do not<br \/>\nfollow any rules of line length or meter in Pantoums but where they were born<br \/>\nthey are always octasyllabic as this one is and I choose to use a rather<br \/>\nmournful meter to reinforce the theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Death by cricketjeff on August 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He froze her soul with icy breath Her final day upon this Earth It seemed that she was glad of death So calmly filled her final berth Her final day upon this Earth Much bleaker than her heart could stand So [&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-3130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8378,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3130\/revisions\/8378"}],"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=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}