{"id":3713,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3713"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","slug":"remembered-sounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/remembered-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembered sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Remembered sounds<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI hear the sounds from many miles away<br \/>\nSoft echoes of the voices of the deep<br \/>\nThe tides that match the rhythms of my sleep<br \/>\nAre calling me to visit you today<\/p>\n<p>Inside my head I hear the seagulls play<br \/>\nAnd smile as breakers stir my idle mind<br \/>\nThe tide recedes and leaves a world to find<br \/>\nWhere you and I can shelter in the bay<\/p>\n<p>The chatter of the pebbles on the beach<br \/>\nAs grinding waves bring polish to the stones<br \/>\nAnd breezes carry home the ghostly moans<br \/>\nOf souls who found the shore was out of reach<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on the pier and stood as if to preach<br \/>\nBut all the words are spoken by the sea<br \/>\nShe bring the news of all the world to me<br \/>\nWhere I await the lessons she can teach<\/p>\n<p>The laughter spun on other distant shores<br \/>\nWhere those I&#8217;ll never know can hear her too<br \/>\nI strain the sounds to hear the news of you<br \/>\nUnhidden by the ocean&#8217;s tragic roars<\/p>\n<p>Now wide awake the sounds are but a pause<br \/>\nMy life returns and calls me to its aid<br \/>\nBut deep inside a debt that must be paid<br \/>\nFor memories of you the sea restores<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,<br \/>\nAnd round the pebbly beaches far and wide<br \/>\nI heard the first wave of the rising tide<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from The Sound of the Sea &#8211; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembered sounds by cricketjeff on March 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I hear the sounds from many miles away Soft echoes of the voices of the deep The tides that match the rhythms of my sleep Are calling me to visit you today Inside my head I hear the seagulls play And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3713","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3713","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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3713\/revisions\/7795"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}