{"id":3966,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3966"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","slug":"i-crave-your-sweet-caresses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-crave-your-sweet-caresses\/","title":{"rendered":"I crave your sweet caresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I crave your sweet caresses<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 30, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI crave the sweet caresses of your searching fingertips<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The tender little touches of your hair<br \/>\nI need to feel the pressure of your urgent parting lips<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And draw a breath from your discarded air<br \/>\nI want to know the passion that is burning in your eyes<br \/>\nAnd understand the meanings of the softest of your sighs<\/p>\n<p>If I could hold you closely on the grass beneath the stars<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And tell you all my story in a kiss<br \/>\nI would never strive for glories or be envious of Tsars<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 For nowhere else in nature knows that bliss<br \/>\nEach night you are the pillow that lies soft against my cheek<br \/>\nAnd deep slow breaths of sleeping hold the words I want to speak<\/p>\n<p>If you would be my lover for a thousand years or more<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Perhaps we could exhaust the love I feel<br \/>\nBut in a dozen lifetimes there would still be more in store<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Each day would hold another sweet appeal<br \/>\nFor you are all my dreaming and the future I desire<br \/>\nThe spark of living sunshine that can set the day on fire<\/p>\n<p>The tides that brush the beaches and the winds that comb the sea<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Are almost sure to fail before my dream<br \/>\nThe Earth will cease its spinning long before you cease to be<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The star that gives my eyes their happy gleam<br \/>\nI want you for forever and I hope you want me too<br \/>\nTomorrow can&#8217;t exist without the thought of me and you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I crave your sweet caresses by cricketjeff on June 30, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I crave the sweet caresses of your searching fingertips \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The tender little touches of your hair I need to feel the pressure of your urgent parting lips \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And draw a breath from [&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-3966","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3966","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=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3966\/revisions\/7541"}],"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=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}