{"id":3967,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3967"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:31:46","slug":"a-lonely-walk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-or-an-poems\/a-lonely-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"A lonely walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A lonely walk<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThrough dreamy paths and scented air<br \/>\nI walked as lovers often do<br \/>\nThe midnight moon seemed not to care<br \/>\nThat as I walked I dreamt of you<\/p>\n<p>These were the dreams we used to share<br \/>\nWhen we were walking hand in hand,<br \/>\nThe midnight moon seemed not to care<br \/>\nAnd I will never understand<\/p>\n<p>If we are wise then we prepare<br \/>\nFor when the happy times will change<br \/>\nThe midnight moon seemed not to care<br \/>\nThat I was left to rearrange<\/p>\n<p>And though your face was everywhere<br \/>\nYou were not walking by my side<br \/>\nThe midnight moon seemed not to care<br \/>\nThat I had lost the fire inside<\/p>\n<p>A life of love became despair<br \/>\nThe night you slipped away from me<br \/>\nThe midnight moon seemed not to care<br \/>\nThat now I lived a tragedy<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nAlternately rhymed kyrielle in iambic tetrameter using the third line of each<br \/>\nstanza as the repeat, just for a change. The given prompt was the midnight<br \/>\nmoon.<\/p>\n<p>abAb acAc etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lonely walk by cricketjeff on July 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Through dreamy paths and scented air I walked as lovers often do The midnight moon seemed not to care That as I walked I dreamt of you These were the dreams we used to share When we were walking hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3967","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=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3967\/revisions\/7540"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}