{"id":3835,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3835"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"bring-on-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/bring-on-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the rain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bring on the rain!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe drizzling clouds of dirty grey<br \/>\nBring many poets tears of pain<br \/>\nThey pine to find a sunny day<br \/>\nI love the rain<\/p>\n<p>The thick black dust that coats the roads<br \/>\nIs washed into each handy drain<br \/>\nAnd city ponds for frogs and toads<br \/>\nAre filled by rain<\/p>\n<p>In summer heat oppresses so<br \/>\nAnd though it goes against the grain<br \/>\nWhen clouds roll in to spoil the show<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll praise the rain<\/p>\n<p>Where blackberries grow wild and free<br \/>\nThere is a boon we all can gain<br \/>\nBut they won&#8217;t fruit abundantly<br \/>\nWithout the rain<\/p>\n<p>In years of drought the countryside<br \/>\nAppears as just a dusty stain<br \/>\nAnd not the greens of which we&#8217;re proud<br \/>\nSo dance for rain<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true I love to bask in sun<br \/>\nSee half clad girls who entertain<br \/>\nBut I can find a lot of fun<br \/>\nOut in the rain<\/p>\n<p>So I must sing this hymn of praise<br \/>\nAnd when it&#8217;s done I&#8217;ll start again<br \/>\nI&#8217;m waiting for some dreary days<br \/>\nBring on the rain!!!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nA Sapphic Ode (in the style used by Alexander Pope) in praise of rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring on the rain! by cricketjeff on May 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The drizzling clouds of dirty grey Bring many poets tears of pain They pine to find a sunny day I love the rain The thick black dust that coats the roads Is washed into each handy drain And city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3835","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3835\/revisions\/7674"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}