{"id":5419,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5419"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-queen-of-clouds-at-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-queen-of-clouds-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Clouds at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Queen of Clouds at Night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 22, 2013.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/14616.html]<\/p>\n<p>Every night I sit enraptured by sheer beauty from above,<br \/>\nDressed in wisps of white emotion, drawn from spinnerets of love,<br \/>\nLit by silver tinted moonbeams, scented by the sounds of light,<br \/>\nI am kissed by all I&#8217;ve dreamt of, by the Queen of Clouds at night.<\/p>\n<p>As a child I well remember stories at my mother&#8217;s knee<br \/>\nOf the beauty of the fairies and the folk too few could see<br \/>\nAnd I saw them every evening when the light had ebbed away<br \/>\nTo the lands when dreams can touch you and you&#8217;ll always yearn to stay<br \/>\nThere I slept beneath the wonder of a billion shards of light<br \/>\nAnd I lost my heart forever to the Queen of Clouds at night.<\/p>\n<p>If you wait until the moment that the sky is blessed with gold<br \/>\nAnd the gentlest of breezes whisper to the birds they hold<br \/>\nIf you close your eyes in wonder you can see far past the sky<br \/>\nThrough the cares that dim your vision when your heart decides to fly<br \/>\nOn an island by the ocean she is waiting there for me<br \/>\nDressed in mists and pure white lilies she is love and poetry<br \/>\nAn angelic veil of music fills the scene with sweet delight<br \/>\nAnd I dance from dusk to dawning with my Queen of Clouds at night.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t floated away on romantic words for too long &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of Clouds at Night by cricketjeff on June 22, 2013.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/14616.html] Every night I sit enraptured by sheer beauty from above, Dressed in wisps of white emotion, drawn from spinnerets of love, Lit by silver tinted moonbeams, scented by the sounds of light, I am kissed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5419\/revisions\/6088"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}