{"id":4967,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4967"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","slug":"roses-for-a-valentine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/roses-for-a-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses for a Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Roses for a Valentine<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 26, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTo spite the world that tears a love apart<br \/>\nWe share the words that bridge unfriendly seas<br \/>\nThe soothing balm that fights a sad disease<br \/>\nA dozen roses hold a tender heart<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The flash of red you showed me from the start<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Returned in blooms from Cupid&#8217;s sacred bed<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Supplying fuel to keep the passions fed<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 A dozen roses hold a tender heart<br \/>\nSo many men must trust the florist&#8217;s art<br \/>\nTo write the lines they have no chance to say<br \/>\nAspiring Romeos for just one day<br \/>\nA dozen roses hold a tender heart<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 To spite the world that tears a love apart<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 A dozen roses hold a tender heart<\/p>\n<p>A nervous fool who waits till pleasure shows<br \/>\nBecomes a king when wrapped inside her eyes<br \/>\nAll expectation lost in sweet surprise<br \/>\nTwo cheeks that blush the colour of a rose<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 A love is born wherever beauty grows<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 And tended well becomes a thriving bush<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 As pretty as a dancer&#8217;s tidy tush<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Two cheeks that blush the colour of a rose<br \/>\nThe scene is set and now emotion flows<br \/>\nThrough damns that burst, exploded by a kiss<br \/>\nThe evidence that roses promise bliss<br \/>\nTwo cheeks that blush the colour of a rose<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 A nervous fool who waits till pleasure shows<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Two cheeks that blush the colour of a rose<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roses for a Valentine by cricketjeff on February 26, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved To spite the world that tears a love apart We share the words that bridge unfriendly seas The soothing balm that fights a sad disease A dozen roses hold a tender heart \u00a0 \u00a0 The flash of red you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4967","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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4967\/revisions\/6540"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}