No Competition
\nby cricketjeff on April 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe Moon comes up each evening, not to decorate the night,
\nNor dance with constellations, nor to spread her silver light;
\nThe Moon is full and brazen, or the shiest smile when new,
\nBut waxing fast or waning she can not compete with you.<\/p>\n
You’re a mermaid in a fountain,
\nThrowing sunlight everywhere.
\nYou’re a walk across a mountain,
\nWhistling “Londonderry Air”.<\/p>\n
The daffodils in springtime smile like sunlight on the ground
\nAnd buttercups are golden like a nugget, newly found.
\nIn the bluebell woods of Sussex there’s a floating mist of blue
\nBut though the may be beautiful they can’t compete with you.<\/p>\n
In a restaurant from heaven,
\nYou’re the special of the day;
\nOut of six you’d score a seven,
\nAny game you chose to play.<\/p>\n
When the Summer days are longest and the poppies start to blaze,
\nIn a cornflower sprinkled meadow, there’s a warm and golden haze.
\nWhen the skylark rises steeply to begin his song on cue,
\nThey are lost inside my picture for they can’t compete with you.<\/p>\n
You’re a film-star in a Roller
\nTurning up to steal the stage,
\nYou’re the nation’s greatest bowler
\nWriting records by the page.<\/p>\n
When your hand’s inside my fingers, when you gaze into my eyes,
\nI see fairies dancing waltzes and hear nature’s deepest sighs.
\nWhen I dream that you could love me every other thought’s askew,
\nThough the world has many wonders, there are none compete with you.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI’ll be back with dots and squiggles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No Competition by cricketjeff on April 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Moon comes up each evening, not to decorate the night, Nor dance with constellations, nor to spread her silver light; The Moon is full and brazen, or the shiest smile when new, But waxing fast or waning she can not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4544","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4544","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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4544\/revisions\/6964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}