{"id":4707,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4707"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"perseid-dreams-a-luc-bat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/perseid-dreams-a-luc-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid dreams -a luc bat-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Perseid dreams (a luc bat)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe sky was dreary grey<br \/>\nBut as the hour turned day to night<br \/>\nThe blue came into sight,<br \/>\nThe stargazers&#8217; delight appeared.<br \/>\nThe boy inside me cheered<br \/>\nTo see, what I had feared I&#8217;d miss<br \/>\nThis year; the comets kiss,<br \/>\nThe rain of dust that&#8217;s bliss to see,<br \/>\nThe Perseid&#8217;s poetry<br \/>\nOf lights above brings me a smile<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s bound to last a while.<br \/>\nThose meteors beguile the heart<br \/>\nAnd so perhaps I&#8217;ll start<br \/>\nTo know we&#8217;re not apart to stay.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA &#8220;luc bat&#8221; (Vietnamese for six eight) is a poem of alternating six and eight<br \/>\nsyllable lines which have a rhyming pattern for the sixth syllable and the end<br \/>\nsyllable of each line that goes like this<\/p>\n<p>xxxxxa<br \/>\nxxxxxaxb<br \/>\nxxxxxb<br \/>\nxxxxxbxc<br \/>\nxxxxxc<br \/>\nxxxxxcxd<\/p>\n<p>and so on until<\/p>\n<p>xxxxxz<br \/>\nxxxxxzxa<\/p>\n<p>It can have any number of lines but the last must be turned back onto the<br \/>\nfirst.<\/p>\n<p>I know a number of poets here have written good ones, I don&#8217;t think my attempt<br \/>\nis, the heavy enjambment disturbs me, but it was interesting to try it out<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseid dreams (a luc bat) by cricketjeff on August 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The sky was dreary grey But as the hour turned day to night The blue came into sight, The stargazers&#8217; delight appeared. The boy inside me cheered To see, what I had feared I&#8217;d miss This year; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4707","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=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4707\/revisions\/6802"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}