{"id":4006,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4006"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"his-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/his-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"His Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> His Butterfly<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[a pretty butterfly woman found via google images at http:\/\/<br \/>\njantux.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/butterfly_woman-1024&#215;768.jpg]<\/p>\n<p>She fluttered into view without a care<br \/>\nA beauty with an easy natured air<br \/>\nUnfolding on the beach she turned his eyes<br \/>\nA smile and he had lost his single life<br \/>\nBut one who always won the greatest prize<br \/>\nWas happy to have found a trophy wife<\/p>\n<p>A perfect gift might not be as it seems<br \/>\nBe careful when you count up all your dreams<\/p>\n<p>He bought her all the best a man can buy<br \/>\nA gift a day to see that perfect smile<br \/>\nBut pretty butterflies are born to fly<br \/>\nBe glad you can enjoy them for a while<br \/>\nThe time had come for wandering elsewhere<br \/>\nShe left him to his heartache and despair<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA butterfly sonnet, I hope [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<br \/>\nI have used a reversed Shakespearean sixain for the top wing a couplet for the<br \/>\nbody and a Shakespearean sixain (Venus and Adonis stanza) for the bottom wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Butterfly by cricketjeff on July 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [a pretty butterfly woman found via google images at http:\/\/ jantux.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/butterfly_woman-1024&#215;768.jpg] She fluttered into view without a care A beauty with an easy natured air Unfolding on the beach she turned his eyes A smile and he had lost his single [&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-4006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4006","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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4006\/revisions\/7502"}],"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=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}