{"id":3621,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3621"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:19:17","slug":"the-bearded-trunk-bat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-bearded-trunk-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bearded Trunk-Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Bearded Trunk-Bat<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe bearded trunk-bat flies each night<br \/>\nTo drink the nectar from the flowers<br \/>\nTo hide himself from human sight<br \/>\nHe sleeps away the daylight hours<\/p>\n<p>To drink the nectar from the flowers<br \/>\nHe has a most delightful trunk<br \/>\nHe sleeps away the daylight hours<br \/>\nIn caves stuffed full of precious junk<\/p>\n<p>He has a most delightful trunk<br \/>\nA bristly beard and leather wings<br \/>\nIn caves stuffed full of precious junk<br \/>\nHe stores away his prettiest things<\/p>\n<p>A bristly beard and leather wings<br \/>\nHis raw attraction is not great<br \/>\nHe stores away his prettiest things<br \/>\nTo try to win a loving mate<\/p>\n<p>His raw attraction is not great<br \/>\nHe has to gather flowers and beads<br \/>\nTo try to win a loving mate<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll help him meet his urgent needs<\/p>\n<p>He has to gather flowers and beads<br \/>\nHis cave will be a sight to see<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll help him meet his urgent needs?<br \/>\nTo find himself a bat lady<\/p>\n<p>His cave will be a sight to see<br \/>\nThough covered up with dark green leaves<br \/>\nTo find himself a bat lady<br \/>\nHe dances on a mat he weaves<\/p>\n<p>Though covered up with dark green leaves<br \/>\nTo hide himself from human sight<br \/>\nHe dances on a mat he weaves<br \/>\nThe bearded trunk-bat flies each night<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nIn common with the bearded trunk-bat I never eat pizza<\/p>\n<p>Oh and if anyone cares the poem is a pantoum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bearded Trunk-Bat by cricketjeff on February 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The bearded trunk-bat flies each night To drink the nectar from the flowers To hide himself from human sight He sleeps away the daylight hours To drink the nectar from the flowers He has a most delightful trunk He sleeps [&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-3621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3621","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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7887,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3621\/revisions\/7887"}],"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=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}