{"id":4676,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4676"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-goddess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Goddess<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 21, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHer lips were soft as butter as it melted on the toast<br \/>\nWe ate on winter evenings after school<br \/>\nShe made me every promise that I longed to hear the most<br \/>\nI loved to let her play me for a fool<br \/>\nSo young and fresh and beautiful a breath of morning air<br \/>\nA body and a playful mind that she was born to share<\/p>\n<p>Her skin was melted chocolate with a dash of added cream<br \/>\nShe poured it over mine on stolen days<br \/>\nA sniff of dark confection and I&#8217;m back inside the dream<br \/>\nA monster lost inside a golden maze<br \/>\nSo warm and lithe and willing was the angel I acquired<br \/>\nShe lived to be inspected, like a statue all admired<\/p>\n<p>She showed me her Nirvana and she offered me the sky<br \/>\nIf I would only fly her to the Moon<br \/>\nIn public she was teasing and perhaps a little shy<br \/>\nBut never when we owned an afternoon<br \/>\nSo hot and so inventive such a devil in disguise<br \/>\nShe taught me that a goddess only speaks in breathless sighs<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes were deep as caverns filled with sapphires from the sea<br \/>\nAnd she was like a siren on the shore<br \/>\nA vision of perfection made a lover out of me<br \/>\nAnd claimed I was the man she would adore<br \/>\nSo fickle and so flighty and a mistress of the game<br \/>\nI knew that she would leave me but I loved her just the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goddess by cricketjeff on July 21, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Her lips were soft as butter as it melted on the toast We ate on winter evenings after school She made me every promise that I longed to hear the most I loved to let her play me for a fool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4676","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=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4676\/revisions\/6832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}