{"id":5033,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5033"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"if-we-meet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/if-we-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> If We Meet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 18, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWould we gaze at sudden sunsets as the flocks of starlings weave,<br \/>\nSwapping tails of lost tomorrows in a land of make believe?<br \/>\nShould we tell each other secrets as the spread of stars appears?<br \/>\nHolding tight onto each other would we fight against our fears?<br \/>\nWe could kiss and find the answers to the questions no-one knows,<br \/>\nAs the Night starts smiling sweetly and the midnight zephyr blows.<br \/>\nAs we lay by lazy rivers we would see the heavens shine,<br \/>\nToasting hopes of loving futures with a glass of vintage wine.<br \/>\nUnder scattered pearls and diamonds on a deep blue velvet bed<br \/>\nWe would talk of all that matters, follow every valid thread;<br \/>\nTill with drip, drip, drips of passion, we surrendered to our fate<br \/>\nAnd in fingertipping fashion we unlaced one last debate.<br \/>\nWhen the dawn first fired the treetops, and the dew dropped all around,<br \/>\nWe would sleep away all heartaches as we dreamt of all we&#8217;d found.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n15 syllables in a slow lazy tetrameter, mmm I love that meter<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/grin.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If We Meet by cricketjeff on April 18, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Would we gaze at sudden sunsets as the flocks of starlings weave, Swapping tails of lost tomorrows in a land of make believe? Should we tell each other secrets as the spread of stars appears? Holding tight onto each other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5033","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5033","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=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5033\/revisions\/6475"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}