{"id":3616,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3616"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:47","slug":"late-night-ponderings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/late-night-ponderings\/","title":{"rendered":"Late night ponderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Late night ponderings<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAs I&#8217;m sitting in a bathroom thinking what I ought to write<br \/>\nI am gazing through a window seeing nothing but the night<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no stars or Moon or planets simply dark grey clouds above<br \/>\nAnd I wonder if I dare to write another ode to love<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sitting here and drying trying hard to start to write<br \/>\nI am struck by all the issues that the world keeps out of sight<br \/>\nAnd I know that as a poet I should write them from my head<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s closing in on midnight and it&#8217;s time I thought of bed<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m putting on pyjamas knowing I can&#8217;t really write<br \/>\nI am pondering the future and if I can make it bright<br \/>\nBut tomorrow will be Monday and I&#8217;ll have to work all day<br \/>\nAnd my mind will fill with problems while my dreams are still at play<\/p>\n<p>As I look to see my fingers I can see they tried to write<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m much to tired to read it so I&#8217;ll guess it&#8217;s a delight<br \/>\nWhen I wake up in the morning I shall have a look to see<br \/>\nIf I wrote a lot of rubbish or a little poetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late night ponderings by cricketjeff on February 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved As I&#8217;m sitting in a bathroom thinking what I ought to write I am gazing through a window seeing nothing but the night There&#8217;s no stars or Moon or planets simply dark grey clouds above And I wonder if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3616","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=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3616\/revisions\/7892"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}