{"id":3382,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3382"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-bridge-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-bridge-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"The bridge of dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The bridge of dreams<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[A dreamlike scene where a bridge appears inside the clouds and turns into<br \/>\nsailing ships]<\/p>\n<p>Each night inside a dream you walk with me<br \/>\nTo lands where past and future fade away<br \/>\nWhere everything is lost in just one day<br \/>\nThe clouds have built a bridge across the sea<\/p>\n<p>I learned to live a dream so we could be<br \/>\nThe walkers on that road to everywhere<br \/>\nA perfect life that lovers seldom share<br \/>\nThe clouds now carry us across the sea<\/p>\n<p>With head upon the pillow I am free<br \/>\nTo hold you as my own for evermore<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll be together on that distant shore<br \/>\nThe clouds have built a ship to cross the sea<\/p>\n<p>Each night inside a dream you walk with me<br \/>\nUpon the bridge of ships that&#8217;s crossed the sea<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nAn &#8220;echo sonnet&#8221;<br \/>\nA form I adapted from the kyrielle sonnet altering the rhyme scheme to an<br \/>\nenvelope rhyme within each stanza moving to ten syllable (IP ideally) lines<br \/>\neach stanza finishes with the same line, or as in this case with a modified<br \/>\nversion of the same line ending at the same rhyming word, the first line, as<br \/>\nwith the kyrielle sonnet is also the thirteenth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bridge of dreams by cricketjeff on November 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [A dreamlike scene where a bridge appears inside the clouds and turns into sailing ships] Each night inside a dream you walk with me To lands where past and future fade away Where everything is lost in just one [&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-3382","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3382","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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3382\/revisions\/8126"}],"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=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}