{"id":4397,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4397"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"looking-forward-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/looking-forward-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Looking forward<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 27, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI close my eyes and you are there<br \/>\nA secret prize for me alone<br \/>\nThe tasty dish I&#8217;ll never share<br \/>\nIs waiting in the spot we own<br \/>\nThe hideaway<br \/>\nWhere we can stay<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll hold you close for evermore<br \/>\nEnjoying love in all it&#8217;s forms<br \/>\nI&#8217;m with the girl that I&#8217;ll adore<br \/>\nThrough all of life&#8217;s unwanted storms<br \/>\nAlthough by day<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re far away<\/p>\n<p>Each night my dreams are filled with you<br \/>\nI taste your lips like vintage wine<br \/>\nAnd every night is fresh and new<br \/>\nWe giggle as I make you mine<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s fun to play<br \/>\nWith you each day<\/p>\n<p>One day we&#8217;ll meet with open eyes<br \/>\nAnd all we have will then be real<br \/>\nThe last remaining sweet surprise<br \/>\nWill be the way you really feel<br \/>\nWhen I can say<br \/>\n&#8220;I hope you&#8217;ll stay&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nSixains of four lines in iambic tetrameter followed by the couplet in iambic<br \/>\ndimeter.<\/p>\n<p>I shall, if I may play around and see what mood the form seems to suit<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking forward by cricketjeff on January 27, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I close my eyes and you are there A secret prize for me alone The tasty dish I&#8217;ll never share Is waiting in the spot we own The hideaway Where we can stay I&#8217;ll hold you close for evermore Enjoying love [&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-4397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4397","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=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7109,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4397\/revisions\/7109"}],"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=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}