{"id":4407,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4407"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"lost-moonbeams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/lost-moonbeams\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost moonbeams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lost moonbeams<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 5, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn the moonlight, when I met you, there was romance in the air;<br \/>\nIn the silver shafts of beauty there was wonder everywhere.<br \/>\nIn your voice before I saw you was the echo of the night,<br \/>\nYou were singing like a rainbow filled with fairies and delight.<br \/>\nAnd you laughed before you saw me as the stars danced to your tune,<br \/>\nOn that night when you released me to the magic of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>In the moonlight when you kissed me I saw all that I could be,<br \/>\nIn the touches of your fingers there was hope and ecstasy.<br \/>\nSo we walked beside the water of the pond inside the park,<br \/>\nWhere the moths found food and safety in the shelter of the dark.<br \/>\nFar above a silver fountain scattered moonbeams on our heads,<br \/>\nAnd ignored the daylight dandies lying lifeless in their beds.<\/p>\n<p>In the moonlight we were married by the priestess of the stars,<br \/>\nWith a bridesmaid blessed by Venus and a best man dressed by Mars.<br \/>\nThere were barn owls country dancing, while the bats just scuttered by<br \/>\nAnd you gave me more than heaven and the chance to rule the sky,<br \/>\nWhere the mistress of our meetings taught the nightingale to croon,<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;ll hold your heart forever in the kingdom of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>In the moonlight there is no-one who can tear away my heart,<br \/>\nFrom the worship of my model and the muse of all my art.<br \/>\nAnd her queen is ever with her, never jealous nor afraid,<br \/>\nOf the beauty of the princess that her silver magic made.<br \/>\nYou will always be my lover, mon amour, my perfect dream,<br \/>\nAnd your face is always with me, lit by just one lost moonbeam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost moonbeams by cricketjeff on February 5, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In the moonlight, when I met you, there was romance in the air; In the silver shafts of beauty there was wonder everywhere. In your voice before I saw you was the echo of the night, You were singing like a [&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-4407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4407","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=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4407\/revisions\/7101"}],"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=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}