{"id":3960,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3960"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"hoping-never-to-be-found","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/hoping-never-to-be-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoping never to be found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hoping never to be found<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn a thunderstorm in summer we were sheltered on the seat<br \/>\nUnder drumbeats from the heavens watching streams beneath our feet<br \/>\nAs the wind began exploring you were cuddled into me<br \/>\nAnd we swung aboard the weather like a ship abroad at sea<\/p>\n<p>There were flashes up above us and a symphony of sound<br \/>\nWe were safely on our swing-seat and we hoped we&#8217;d not be found<\/p>\n<p>Then you pulled me even closer raised your lips to meet my own<br \/>\nAt the bottom of the path we always said was overgrown<br \/>\nAs my fingers found their pleasure in the softness of your waist<br \/>\nI was kissing you forever and I still recall the taste<\/p>\n<p>There were flashes up above us and a symphony of sound<br \/>\nWe were safely on our swing-seat and we hoped we&#8217;d not be found<\/p>\n<p>Heartless raindrops pummelled roses where the bees had taken sips<br \/>\nWhile I found a world of romance in the moistness of your lips<br \/>\nAnd the songbirds huddled closer in the shelter of a tree<br \/>\nThere were thunderclaps and lightning in the world of you and me\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were flashes up above us and a symphony of sound<br \/>\nWe were safely on our swing-seat and we hoped we&#8217;d not be found<\/p>\n<p>When the sun destroyed the darkness and the black clouds slunk away<br \/>\nWe were still wrapped in each other in a dream for every day<br \/>\nAs the final heavy raindrops played the last notes of the song<br \/>\nWe were grieving that the rainstorm hadn&#8217;t lasted twice as long<\/p>\n<p>No more flashes up above us and a soft decline of sound<br \/>\nWe were still sat on the swing-seat hoping never to be found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping never to be found by cricketjeff on June 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In a thunderstorm in summer we were sheltered on the seat Under drumbeats from the heavens watching streams beneath our feet As the wind began exploring you were cuddled into me And we swung aboard the weather like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3960","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3960","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=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3960\/revisions\/7548"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}