{"id":4126,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4126"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-witch-queens-tomb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-witch-queens-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witch Queen\\&#8217;s Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Witch Queen&#8217;s Tomb<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA marble slab holds closed the coal black tomb<br \/>\nA prison for a heartless undead queen<br \/>\nShe cheated death by drinking from the womb<br \/>\nThe blood of souls still certain to be clean<\/p>\n<p>Her pearl white teeth were stained a ruby red<br \/>\nHer face a cameo of cruelty<br \/>\nWith sapphire eyes far colder than the dead<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s trapped in adamant and can&#8217;t get free<\/p>\n<p>Her subjects&#8217; pleas were heard from far away<br \/>\nTen silent knights appeared to end her reign<br \/>\nHer magic held the sharpest blades at bay<br \/>\nBut could not break the knights&#8217; cold iron chain<\/p>\n<p>Her treasure chests weren&#8217;t rich enough to save<br \/>\nThe Witch Queen from an awful living grave<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWord bank words used:-<br \/>\nmarble, sapphire, ruby, coal, treasure, cameo, adamant, pearl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witch Queen&#8217;s Tomb by cricketjeff on September 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A marble slab holds closed the coal black tomb A prison for a heartless undead queen She cheated death by drinking from the womb The blood of souls still certain to be clean Her pearl white teeth were stained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4126","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=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4126\/revisions\/7381"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}