{"id":4212,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4212"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-dozen-deep-red-roses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-dozen-deep-red-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"The dozen deep red roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The dozen deep red roses<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nJust a dozen deep red roses on the sill beside the door<br \/>\nMake me dream about your perfume and the life I still want more<br \/>\nThey are beautiful and tear-filled doomed to slowly wilt away<br \/>\nBut my love will be unending while the wind makes rose stems sway<\/p>\n<p>In those dozen deep red roses are the words I never said<br \/>\nAll the happy hopes and loving that I kept inside my head<br \/>\nAnd the roses that I bought you show a mocking silent face<br \/>\nTo a heart that&#8217;s torn and broken now you&#8217;ve found another place<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no dozen deep red roses that could change the simple truth<br \/>\nI forgot to show my feelings as I cast away my youth<br \/>\nEvery day I knew I loved you but I kept it to myself<br \/>\nJust a fool who left emotions neatly stacked up on the shelf<\/p>\n<p>But my dozen deep red roses will be there until they die<br \/>\nThen another dozen roses will be there to make me cry<br \/>\nIn my heart you&#8217;re all the roses you were all I ever saw<br \/>\nIn the dozen deep red roses on the sill beside the door<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nBefore anyone asks, it is fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dozen deep red roses by cricketjeff on October 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Just a dozen deep red roses on the sill beside the door Make me dream about your perfume and the life I still want more They are beautiful and tear-filled doomed to slowly wilt away But my love [&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-4212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4212","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=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4212\/revisions\/7297"}],"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=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}