{"id":4784,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4784"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-poetry-of-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-poetry-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Poetry of Night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 11, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBefore we met I had no way to write<br \/>\nThe words to match the music of your sighs<br \/>\nTen thousand stars may blossom every night<br \/>\nBut I can only see them in your eyes<br \/>\nThe velvet sky&#8217;s a carpet of delight<br \/>\nThat forms the perfect setting for my prize<br \/>\nYou woke a heart from years of fitful sleep<br \/>\nAnd promised me a treasure I can keep<\/p>\n<p>On other nights the Moon&#8217;s unfailing smile<br \/>\nCould not ignite the flames I want to know<br \/>\nBut now each constellation can beguile<br \/>\nEmotions that I used to fail to show<br \/>\nThe endless heaven&#8217;s working to compile<br \/>\nAn Eden in this wilderness below<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll find this place where dreams will always share<br \/>\nReality with those who&#8217;ve come to care<\/p>\n<p>You are my nights you are my summer days<br \/>\nYou are the stars that changed my point of view<br \/>\nBefore this new found happiness decays<br \/>\nI want to learn the truths you always knew<br \/>\nYou are the spark that set my soul ablaze<br \/>\nIn all the world you are the only you<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take your hand and touch the poetry<br \/>\nThat gave me back the chance to still be me<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThree stanzas of ottava rima, iambic pentameter written in the rhyme scheme<br \/>\nabababcc, an ancient Italian form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poetry of Night by cricketjeff on October 11, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Before we met I had no way to write The words to match the music of your sighs Ten thousand stars may blossom every night But I can only see them in your eyes The velvet sky&#8217;s a carpet [&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-4784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6724,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4784\/revisions\/6724"}],"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=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}