{"id":3887,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3887"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"mating-rituals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/mating-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mating Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mating Rituals<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/257.html]<\/p>\n<p>The night is alight and the dragons are flying<br \/>\nTearing through clouds on their wings made of fire<br \/>\nThe flashes of lightning so clearly implying<br \/>\nThe season when dragons are lost in desire<\/p>\n<p>The hailstones crash down from the clouds where they muster<br \/>\nEach pair mate for life but they still must display<br \/>\nAs flashes explode from the cartwheeling cluster<br \/>\nThe dragons build passion then flee from the day<\/p>\n<p>Moon Glider and Flame Thrower fly from the others<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll consummate love in their own private lair<br \/>\nIn time they are followed by sisters and brothers<br \/>\nWho stream from the clouds that are filling the air<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t cower in terror when skies rip asunder<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s dragons in love that are making the thunder<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe illustration is by Frodofan<\/p>\n<p>Written for this contest http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/contest\/2448257 but I appear to<br \/>\nbe banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mating Rituals by cricketjeff on May 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/257.html] The night is alight and the dragons are flying Tearing through clouds on their wings made of fire The flashes of lightning so clearly implying The season when dragons are lost in desire The hailstones crash down from the clouds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3887","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3887","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=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3887\/revisions\/7621"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}