{"id":3323,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3323"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","slug":"the-art-of-us-all","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-art-of-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of us all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The art of us all<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn life, in love, in time for tea<br \/>\nBy air or on the ground<br \/>\nAll things must be in poetry<br \/>\nBoth mundane and profound<\/p>\n<p>All life all art the end and start<br \/>\nThe tiny and the great<br \/>\nA horse and cart, a broken heart<br \/>\nRight now or sit and wait<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a verse that formed a curse<br \/>\nProposals in a swirl<br \/>\nA hand made purse a jet black hearse<br \/>\nA very pretty girl<\/p>\n<p>The merely trite the impolite<br \/>\nA tale of love and lust<br \/>\nA moonlit night a dreadful sight<br \/>\nThe end of boom and bust<\/p>\n<p>The most profane, the quite insane<br \/>\nThe words I want to hear<br \/>\nHer pain filled brain and that blocked drain<br \/>\nObscure or pure and clear<\/p>\n<p>In perfect rhyme about a crime<br \/>\nOr free from form or scan<br \/>\nThe most sublime the out of time<br \/>\nThe history of man<\/p>\n<p>There are no deeds no human greeds<br \/>\nNo thoughts that can&#8217;t be sung<br \/>\nThe poet feeds on all man&#8217;s needs<br \/>\nThe air to fill a lung<\/p>\n<p>I love the sound the fun that&#8217;s found<br \/>\nBy ear or on the page<br \/>\nIt can&#8217;t be downed this art unbound<br \/>\nFor all of life&#8217;s a stage!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI woke up with the first stanza &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art of us all by cricketjeff on October 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In life, in love, in time for tea By air or on the ground All things must be in poetry Both mundane and profound All life all art the end and start The tiny and the great A [&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-3323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3323","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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3323\/revisions\/8186"}],"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=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}