{"id":3740,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3740"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","slug":"i-smile-for","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-smile-for\/","title":{"rendered":"I smile for &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I smile for &#8230;<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA pretty face that wears a smile or giggles on the phone<br \/>\nWhen sunlight glances through an open door<br \/>\nA robin that will sit and talk when I am on my own<br \/>\nOr getting lost in stories I adore<br \/>\nSome apple-pie and custard or a welcome cup of tea<br \/>\nOr just a word from one I love, to say that she loves me<\/p>\n<p>A deep red rose that smells divine or sparrows having fun<br \/>\nAn ice cold tarn high on a Lakeland fell<br \/>\nOutrageous rhyme by Ogden Nash and toast that&#8217;s quite well done<br \/>\nA bakery that spreads the fresh baked smell<br \/>\nMy Mother&#8217;s home-made gingernuts, another cup of tea<br \/>\nA message from the girl I love that sends her love to me<\/p>\n<p>A cover drive from Ali Brown that makes the bowler glare<br \/>\nA leg break spinning past the outside edge<br \/>\nA buzzard by the motorway that plunges through the air<br \/>\nOr walking on a tiny mountain ledge<br \/>\nRoast beef and Yorkshire pudding and maybe another tea<br \/>\nWhile hearing from the one I love that she&#8217;s in love with me<\/p>\n<p>A snowflake in the winter and autumnal golden leaves<br \/>\nA crocus that says Spring is on the way<br \/>\nThe beach when all the ladies have been met by clothing thieves<br \/>\nOr flying kites on any windy day<br \/>\nSome chocolate cake, a nice big slice, then wash it down with tea<br \/>\nAnother for the one I love who says that she loves me<\/p>\n<p>I smile for all these little things I smile for so much more<br \/>\nFor happiness is all we really need<br \/>\nI count up everything I love and marvel at the score<br \/>\nIs garnering such blessings really greed?<br \/>\nA bag of jelly bellies and a nice hot cup of tea<br \/>\nA dream about the girl I love, and when she dreams of me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I smile for &#8230; by cricketjeff on April 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A pretty face that wears a smile or giggles on the phone When sunlight glances through an open door A robin that will sit and talk when I am on my own Or getting lost in stories I adore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3740","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3740","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=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3740\/revisions\/7769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}