{"id":4085,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4085"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:58","slug":"au-revoir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/au-revoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Revoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Au Revoir<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 26, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI thought of you as Venus rose through sunset&#8217;s early rays,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Her sparkle was the twinkle in your eyes.<br \/>\nShe sang to me like birdsong at the start of summer days<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 But all I heard were echoes of your sighs.<br \/>\nThe sunset brought your golden hair, your peach-tinged smiling face.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The deep blue skies the colour of your eyes.<br \/>\nThe stars appeared to show me that you&#8217;ve reached your resting place,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The milky way must be your final prize.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never live another day without you in my heart,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Your silhouette is always in my eyes.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t forgive the tragedy that tore our lives apart<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 But holding you was Eden in disguise.<br \/>\nIn happy sad reflection you are still my evening star,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never say goodbye to you, but only au revoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Au Revoir by cricketjeff on August 26, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I thought of you as Venus rose through sunset&#8217;s early rays, \u00a0 \u00a0 Her sparkle was the twinkle in your eyes. She sang to me like birdsong at the start of summer days \u00a0 \u00a0 But all I heard were echoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4085","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=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4085\/revisions\/7423"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}