{"id":5063,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5063"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:31:45","slug":"a-day-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-or-an-poems\/a-day-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A Day in the Sky<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 16, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe morning spilled her golden glow<br \/>\nAcross the ink-black night<br \/>\nA treasure chest of hues on show<br \/>\nA symphony of light<\/p>\n<p>Then blue serenity appeared<br \/>\nA flat-calm ocean sky<br \/>\nThough which a lonely cloud was steered<br \/>\nWhile seagulls drifted by<\/p>\n<p>First one, then two, the sea turned grey,<br \/>\nThe golden light was chilled<br \/>\nA broiling mass turned out the day<br \/>\nAnd tears of rain were spilled<\/p>\n<p>As war breaks out with fire and roar<br \/>\nThe louring skies erupt<br \/>\nBetween each crash the torrents pour<br \/>\nWhile\u00a0 flashes interrupt<\/p>\n<p>Too fierce to last the light returns<br \/>\nThe counterpane is shred<br \/>\nLight greys and blues as darkness burns<br \/>\nThe raging storm now dead<\/p>\n<p>Its final act throws every hue<br \/>\nIn arcs across the sky<br \/>\nA rainbow bridge divides the blue<br \/>\nWhere songbirds learn to fly<\/p>\n<p>Until the West puts on the gold<br \/>\nThe East left far behind<br \/>\nSoft night returns to guard the fold<br \/>\nThe spinning Earth designed<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA Day in the Sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Day in the Sky by cricketjeff on May 16, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The morning spilled her golden glow Across the ink-black night A treasure chest of hues on show A symphony of light Then blue serenity appeared A flat-calm ocean sky Though which a lonely cloud was steered While seagulls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5063","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=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5063\/revisions\/6444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}