{"id":3460,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3460"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-moment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The moment<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>While sunshine chased the clouds across the sapphire of the skies<br \/>\nAnd daisies danced delighted on the lawn before our eyes.<br \/>\nThe birds began their banquet and the day began its chase<br \/>\nAnd all the songs of nature started falling into place.<\/p>\n<p>The trees were joined in chorus by the river at their feet,<br \/>\nThe ducks were busy dabbling and the blackbirds sang so sweet,<br \/>\nNo cars betrayed the beauty of the music all around.<br \/>\nSo we sat and sighed in silence at the wonders that we&#8217;d found.<\/p>\n<p>The soul-filled light of morning teemed with thoughts still filled with dreams,<br \/>\nThere were chances of a future unpolluted by our schemes,<br \/>\nThere was nothing predetermined, there was all of life to do<br \/>\nAnd alone in all creation there was only me and you.<\/p>\n<p>When my fingers found your fingers and my hand first wrapped your hand,<br \/>\nWhen your lips were slowly parted in the kisses no-one planned,<br \/>\nWhen we lost ourselves in loving and the sun progressed the day,<br \/>\nThere was everything and nothing in the words we didn&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p>Later on the world re-entered and the magic seemed to hide<br \/>\nAnd we started on the breakfast they had thoughtfully supplied<br \/>\nBut I can&#8217;t forget the moment, or the look inside your eyes,<br \/>\nWhen the sunshine chased the clouds across the sapphire of the skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment by cricketjeff on December 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved While sunshine chased the clouds across the sapphire of the skies And daisies danced delighted on the lawn before our eyes. The birds began their banquet and the day began its chase And all the songs of nature started falling into [&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-3460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8048,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions\/8048"}],"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=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}