{"id":4425,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4425"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"monochrome-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/monochrome-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Monochrome in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Monochrome in mind<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 14, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA balmy sky with one half-hearted cloud,<br \/>\nAnd gentle breezes filled with summer flowers.<br \/>\nForget-me-nots are gathered in a crowd,<br \/>\nTo watch as lovers walk away the hours.<\/p>\n<p>The beach scene painted by a five year old,<br \/>\nBoth sky and sea are coloured just the same,<br \/>\nThe sand and sun a single shade of gold,<br \/>\nThe towels and beds like counters in a game.<\/p>\n<p>While teenage hearts are beating in the dunes<br \/>\nAnd Muddy Water&#8217;s music fades away.<br \/>\nMy heart is filled with melancholy tunes<br \/>\nDenying me the pleasures of the day.<\/p>\n<p>So many things are painted in the hue<br \/>\nThat names my mood when I&#8217;m apart from you.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still not happy with this sonnet this was the original third stanza<\/p>\n<p>Some teenage pairs are hidden in the dunes,<br \/>\nRehearsing games their parents used to play.<br \/>\nA radio plays Muddy Waters&#8217; tunes,<br \/>\nReflecting how I feel about the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monochrome in mind by cricketjeff on February 14, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A balmy sky with one half-hearted cloud, And gentle breezes filled with summer flowers. Forget-me-nots are gathered in a crowd, To watch as lovers walk away the hours. The beach scene painted by a five year old, Both sky and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4425","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=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4425\/revisions\/7084"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}