{"id":3233,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3233"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"My love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My love<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI love a girl with perfect style<br \/>\nA pleasing teasing ready wit<br \/>\nThe cook that makes my taste buds smile<br \/>\nHer loving heart&#8217;s the best of it<\/p>\n<p>A pleasing teasing ready wit<br \/>\nA smile for all the woes I feel<br \/>\nHer giggles have me in a fit<br \/>\nA laugh can blunt the sharpest steel<\/p>\n<p>The cook that makes my taste buds smile<br \/>\nShe knows the way to warm my soul<br \/>\nA Michelin meal that will beguile<br \/>\nOr comfort food that must console<\/p>\n<p>Her loving heart&#8217;s the best of it<br \/>\nHer kiss is all a man desires<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll douse the lights and I&#8217;ll submit<br \/>\nTo lose my all within her fires<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA retourne on the prompt &#8220;Attributes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The retourne is a traditional French form, as such it was bound to involve<br \/>\nrepetition and it does the first of the four quatrains contains the first lines<br \/>\nof each quatrain. They do not have to rhyme although I have chosen to rhyme<br \/>\nmine abab bcbc adad bebe. In the French language meter is very weak and so<br \/>\nFrench poetry is usually syllabic rather than metrical, 8 syllables to a line<br \/>\nhere, I have chosen to achieve that with iambic tetrameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love by cricketjeff on September 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I love a girl with perfect style A pleasing teasing ready wit The cook that makes my taste buds smile Her loving heart&#8217;s the best of it A pleasing teasing ready wit A smile for all the woes I feel Her [&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-3233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233\/revisions\/8275"}],"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=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}