{"id":3710,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3710"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"crimson-skies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/crimson-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Crimson skies<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Under a blood red moon]<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom cowers as she patrols the night<br \/>\nThe Queen of death has stained her life with blood<br \/>\nShe walks the towers and mortals run in fright<br \/>\nShe steals all breath beneath her crimson flood<\/p>\n<p>Disease and pain are all the friends she knows<br \/>\nTen thousand souls extinguished by her hand<br \/>\nThe dreadful stain is spread where e&#8217;er she goes<br \/>\nSuch morbid goals no man can understand<\/p>\n<p>The sky above is painted by her deeds<br \/>\nSuch slight revenge on one who turned away<br \/>\nHe spurned her love denied her heartfelt needs<br \/>\nWho will avenge the victims she makes pay?<\/p>\n<p>A single knight arrives to end her reign<br \/>\nWithout a fight he slices her in twain<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nPicture credit to http:\/\/bottomofastairwell.deviantart.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Still editing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimson skies by cricketjeff on March 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Under a blood red moon] The kingdom cowers as she patrols the night The Queen of death has stained her life with blood She walks the towers and mortals run in fright She steals all breath beneath her crimson flood Disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3710","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3710","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=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7797,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3710\/revisions\/7797"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}