{"id":3704,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3704"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"as-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/as-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"As it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> As it seems<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 18, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhile the Moon is still half risen and the Sun is new to bed<br \/>\nWhile the sky is not quite inky and the day is not quite dead,<br \/>\nI am walking in the garden unaware of other dreams<br \/>\nAnd my life is not as empty as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Now the birds had started roosting and the fox begins his prowl<br \/>\nThe allotments fallen silent underneath a searching owl,<br \/>\nAs the stars begin appearing I am lost inside my dreams<br \/>\nAnd my life is not as empty as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>There is blossom on the cherry and the rowan&#8217;s leaves in bud<br \/>\nThere is\u00a0 frog spawn in the bird-pond and some frogs are in the mud.<br \/>\nI am walking under arches that are snatched from rural dreams<br \/>\nAnd my life is not as empty as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>There is poetry condensing from the music of the Spring,<br \/>\nThere are words that ask for freedom like a songbird on the wing,<br \/>\nIn my heart I know you&#8217;re near me and I&#8217;ll kiss you in my dreams.<br \/>\nNo, my life is not as empty as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>No,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 my life is not as empty<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 as it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it seems by cricketjeff on March 18, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved While the Moon is still half risen and the Sun is new to bed While the sky is not quite inky and the day is not quite dead, I am walking in the garden unaware of other dreams And my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3704\/revisions\/7804"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}