{"id":4140,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4140"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"can-you-have-your-fill-of-filberts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/can-you-have-your-fill-of-filberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you have your fill of filberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Can you have your fill of filberts<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 18, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nCan you have your fill of filberts<br \/>\nWill fresh apples ever fail<br \/>\nWould you say &#8220;I love it still but<br \/>\nI prefer my produce stale&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the leaves are bronzing slowly<br \/>\nGentle breezes brush through trees<br \/>\nWhen the evenings start to shorten<br \/>\nAnd the mists arrive to tease<br \/>\nThere are fruits to tempt your taste buds<br \/>\nGolden hues to please your eye<br \/>\nAll the wonder that is Autumn<br \/>\nMakes the waiting poet sigh<\/p>\n<p>Can you have you fill of filberts<br \/>\nWill your taste for pears decline<br \/>\nWould you say &#8220;I love it still but<br \/>\nGive me vinegar not wine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After days of lazy lying<br \/>\nUnder clear unbroken blue<br \/>\nNow the dawn is clearly trying<br \/>\nTo arrive above the dew<br \/>\nIn the orchard children scrumping<br \/>\nRun away from owner&#8217;s rage<br \/>\nBut my heart has started thumping<br \/>\nFor the beauty of this age<\/p>\n<p>Can you have your fill of filberts<br \/>\nOr too many plums for pie<br \/>\nWould you say &#8220;I love it still but<br \/>\nFor frozen food I&#8217;d die&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the promise of the springtime<br \/>\nAll this richness was ahead<br \/>\nNow the year&#8217;s begun to ring time<br \/>\nIn the winter all is dead<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s autumn and there&#8217;s beauty<br \/>\nIn the world that&#8217;s spread around<br \/>\nIn this season fresh and fruity<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s perfection to be found<\/p>\n<p>Can you have your fill of filberts<br \/>\nOr too much of fresh and new<br \/>\nWould you say &#8220;I love it still but<br \/>\nDays of frost are overdue&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you have your fill of filberts by cricketjeff on September 18, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Can you have your fill of filberts Will fresh apples ever fail Would you say &#8220;I love it still but I prefer my produce stale&#8221; When the leaves are bronzing slowly Gentle breezes brush through trees [&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-4140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4140","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=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7369,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4140\/revisions\/7369"}],"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=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}