{"id":4217,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4217"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"imperfect-beauty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/imperfect-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperfect beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Imperfect beauty<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe night contains her beauty everywhere<br \/>\nThe stars were born as twinkles in her eyes<br \/>\nA waterfall of moonlight washed her hair<br \/>\nThe midnight breeze the mem&#8217;ry of her sighs<\/p>\n<p>The stars were born as twinkles in her eyes<br \/>\nNo goldsmith could create such jewellery<br \/>\nMy lover is the mother of the skies<br \/>\nAnd says that all her beauty is for me<\/p>\n<p>A waterfall of moonlight washed her hair<br \/>\nA halo for an angel&#8217;s perfect face<br \/>\nThe night reflects her image everywhere<br \/>\nSo everywhere becomes a better place<\/p>\n<p>The midnight breeze the mem&#8217;ry of her sighs<br \/>\nThe night we met is burned into my dreams<br \/>\nI wish I could not see the way she lies<br \/>\nNo-one can be as perfect as she seems<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA retourne, a set of four quatrains where each stanza starts with each line of<br \/>\nthe first stanza in turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperfect beauty by cricketjeff on October 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The night contains her beauty everywhere The stars were born as twinkles in her eyes A waterfall of moonlight washed her hair The midnight breeze the mem&#8217;ry of her sighs The stars were born as twinkles in her eyes No goldsmith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4217","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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4217\/revisions\/7291"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}