{"id":4915,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4915"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"tranquility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/tranquility\/","title":{"rendered":"Tranquility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tranquility<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 18, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe children have fallen asleep<br \/>\nThe sun has run off to the West<br \/>\nThe shadows have started to creep<br \/>\nWhere nature has gone to her rest<\/p>\n<p>The dogs have gone in for the night<br \/>\nThe birds are at roost in the trees<br \/>\nWhile stars shed a shimmering light<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t a murmur of breeze<\/p>\n<p>My glass is now empty of wine<br \/>\nThe bottle put down by the door<br \/>\nMy feet trace a virtual line<br \/>\nThe route to my bed &#8216;cross the floor<\/p>\n<p>Your hair is a halo of gold<br \/>\nLaid out round your innocent face<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re witnessing stories untold<br \/>\nAs dreams settle into their place<\/p>\n<p>And now is my favourite time<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s peace everywhere I can see<br \/>\nAdrift in an ocean of rhyme<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nowhere that I&#8217;d rather be<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe dogs and the children live next door, but the rest is rather made up I&#8217;m<br \/>\nafraid, you don&#8217;t get a lot of silence in a London suburb!<\/p>\n<p>Prompt: &#8220;Write me a silence&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tranquility by cricketjeff on January 18, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The children have fallen asleep The sun has run off to the West The shadows have started to creep Where nature has gone to her rest The dogs have gone in for the night The birds are at roost in the trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4915","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=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4915\/revisions\/6593"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}