{"id":4261,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4261"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"longings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/longings\/","title":{"rendered":"Longings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Longings<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI miss the feel of a silk-smooth thigh<br \/>\nbeneath my fingers<br \/>\nof sleepy-head hair on my shoulder<br \/>\ngentle breaths on my face.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the taste of lips and<br \/>\nday-blessed flesh<br \/>\nthe sound of soft words<br \/>\nfree of form<br \/>\nbut full of meaning.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the looks<br \/>\nthe sighs<br \/>\nthe deep damp eyes,<br \/>\nthe angry snap and the making up.<\/p>\n<p>The little touches of love<br \/>\nthat make a day worth greeting<br \/>\na night worth meeting<br \/>\nand dreams reality.<\/p>\n<p>The fire of passion<br \/>\nthe ecstasy of expression<br \/>\nand the infinity of release<br \/>\nare large in the literature of love<\/p>\n<p>but<\/p>\n<p>for me<br \/>\nthe little things<br \/>\ninconsequential touches<br \/>\nunnoticed at the time<br \/>\nare the true treasures<br \/>\nthe pure pleasures<br \/>\nand the real rewards<br \/>\nof love.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI wrote this a while ago, have been trying to get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longings by cricketjeff on November 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I miss the feel of a silk-smooth thigh beneath my fingers of sleepy-head hair on my shoulder gentle breaths on my face. I miss the taste of lips and day-blessed flesh the sound of soft words free of form but full of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4261","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=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4261\/revisions\/7246"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}