{"id":3793,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3793"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"if-i-could-hold-you-near","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/if-i-could-hold-you-near\/","title":{"rendered":"If I could hold you near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> If I could hold you near<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>When soon my working day is through<br \/>\nAnd I can walk away from here<br \/>\nMy thoughts and dreams will turn to you<br \/>\nTo all the tender things you&#8217;d do<br \/>\nIf I could hold you near<\/p>\n<p>The sun will shine in harmony<br \/>\nWith fantasies that I hold dear<br \/>\nWhile I imagine ecstasy<br \/>\nThat would be waiting now for me<br \/>\nIf I could hold you near<\/p>\n<p>The leaves will dance in gentle breeze<br \/>\nAs homeward paces gently steer<br \/>\nMe past the rows of blossomed trees<br \/>\nToward what would be perfect ease<br \/>\nIf I could hold you near<\/p>\n<p>Then in the garden drinking wine<br \/>\nBeneath a sky that&#8217;s blue and clear<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll dream of all that would be mine<br \/>\nA life that I would think divine<br \/>\nIf I could hold you near<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOn of AP&#8217;s finest, eusebius, reminded me aof a form of Robert Frost&#8217;s by<br \/>\nwriting a superb poem in the same form. This is not quite the same form as I<br \/>\nhave shrunk the final line of each quintain to iambic termeter, but I am sure<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what put the rhythm in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could hold you near by cricketjeff on April 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When soon my working day is through And I can walk away from here My thoughts and dreams will turn to you To all the tender things you&#8217;d do If I could hold you near The sun [&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-3793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7714,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3793\/revisions\/7714"}],"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=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}