{"id":3415,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3415"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In memoriam<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYou should have seen the world before it died<br \/>\nFrom Arctic snows to harsh Saharan sand<br \/>\nAnd ocean deeps to mountains tall and grand<br \/>\nI saw her fairest sights and then I cried<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But men made free with all that was supplied<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 They pillaged all the lands and then the seas<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ignoring all of Mother Nature&#8217;s pleas<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I saw her fairest sights and then I cried<br \/>\nToo late they saw the leaders mostly lied<br \/>\nThe fragile Earth could not forgive them all<br \/>\nThe edifice of life was left to fall<br \/>\nI saw her fairest sights and then I cried<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You should have seen the world before it died<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I saw her fairest sights and then I cried<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nAn echo sonnet, a form I devised mostly based on the Kyrielle Sonnet but<br \/>\ndecasyllabic. Like the Kyrielle sonnet the final line of each of the four<br \/>\nstanzas is the same and the first line reappears as the thirteenth. But the<br \/>\nrhyming scheme is abbA accA addA aA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memoriam by cricketjeff on November 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved You should have seen the world before it died From Arctic snows to harsh Saharan sand And ocean deeps to mountains tall and grand I saw her fairest sights and then I cried \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But men made free with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3415","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3415","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=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3415\/revisions\/8094"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}