{"id":5279,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5279"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"too-soon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Too Soon<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 31, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWith simple words one star outshone the Moon<br \/>\nAnd strove to be the poet of his age<br \/>\nHis happy pen poured laughter on the page<br \/>\nThe brightest flames are doomed to die too soon<\/p>\n<p>So rare to find a literary monsoon<br \/>\nThat spreads his charms across so wide a scene<br \/>\nHe neatly spanned a cavernous ravine<br \/>\nThe brightest flames are doomed to die too soon<\/p>\n<p>Though he was born without a silver spoon<br \/>\nHe rose to be a Prince of Poetry<br \/>\nAs fine a mind as you could hope to see<br \/>\nThe brightest flames are doomed to die too soon<\/p>\n<p>With simple words one star outshone the Moon<br \/>\nThe brightest flames are doomed to die too soon<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nForPenman a wonderful poet and a true star of AP who died too soon on 18th<br \/>\nDecember 2011<\/p>\n<p>I may revise the third stanza of this echo sonnet, it isn&#8217;t quite what I want<br \/>\nyet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Soon by cricketjeff on December 31, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved With simple words one star outshone the Moon And strove to be the poet of his age His happy pen poured laughter on the page The brightest flames are doomed to die too soon So rare to find a literary monsoon [&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-5279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5279","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=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5279\/revisions\/6231"}],"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=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}