{"id":4022,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4022"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"her-sonnets-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/her-sonnets-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Her sonnets to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Her sonnets to the Moon<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen Martha wrote her sonnets to the Moon<br \/>\nWe knew each word was really meant for Jack<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d marched off to a stirring martial tune<br \/>\nAnd promised her that he was coming back<\/p>\n<p>She waited by the gate to catch the post<br \/>\nAnd grabbed a letter from the postman&#8217;s hand<br \/>\nThen for a while stood silently engrossed<br \/>\nIn words that she could never understand<\/p>\n<p>A telegram is not a lover&#8217;s note<br \/>\nAnd &#8220;Killed in action&#8221; not a sweet remark<br \/>\nHer &#8220;Thank-you Postie&#8221; died inside her throat<br \/>\nAnd early morning light turned into dark<\/p>\n<p>She carried on a life, but now and then<br \/>\nA sonnet to the Moon flows from her pen<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nJust a poem &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her sonnets to the Moon by cricketjeff on July 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When Martha wrote her sonnets to the Moon We knew each word was really meant for Jack He&#8217;d marched off to a stirring martial tune And promised her that he was coming back She waited by the gate [&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-4022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4022","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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4022\/revisions\/7486"}],"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=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}