{"id":4028,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4028"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"contrasting-destinies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/contrasting-destinies\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasting destinies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Contrasting destinies<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWas held within the limits of my mind<br \/>\nWhere liberty is just a form of dreaming<br \/>\nA palace that is always brightly gleaming<br \/>\nAnd not a treasure one can hope to find<br \/>\nI&#8217;d locked the door and left my life behind<br \/>\nAlthough I knew my heart was really screaming<br \/>\nI never thought that I would be redeeming<br \/>\nMy ticket to a world that&#8217;s unconfined<\/p>\n<p>Then you arrived to show me something new<br \/>\nAnd suddenly I saw the window bars<br \/>\nI needed to escape to be with you<br \/>\nTo fly together out amongst the stars<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to accept such limitation<br \/>\nUntil a goddess brings your liberation<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>What chance is there to understand the mind<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s freely lent to innocence and dreaming<br \/>\nAnd lost within the beauty and the gleaming<br \/>\nOf treasures that were left for you to find<br \/>\nNo trace of you is ever left behind<br \/>\nWhen all of life is filled with happy screaming<br \/>\nOf ecstasy that&#8217;s busily redeeming<br \/>\nA life that&#8217;s sweet and always unconfined<\/p>\n<p>All misery would then be something new<br \/>\nA presence in unsanitary bars<br \/>\nI dare not wait to drown myself with you<br \/>\nIn cellars hidden far below the stars<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve made a millstone of your limitation<br \/>\nAnd live in dread of sudden liberation<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA dyad of Petrachan sonnets, I wrote the first and then the second happened, I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t think I like it much! So I shall also poet the first sonnet on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrasting destinies by cricketjeff on July 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Was held within the limits of my mind Where liberty is just a form of dreaming A palace that is always brightly gleaming And not a treasure one can hope to find I&#8217;d locked the door and left my life behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4028","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4028","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=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7480,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4028\/revisions\/7480"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}