River Music
\nby cricketjeff on August 18, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nWhen the spirit of the river stroked her fiddle with her bow,
\nFar above the Moon was spellbound by the sounds she didn’t know,
\nAnd the stars who lived to court her couldn’t get a second glance;
\nAs the silver light of midnight watched the water-maiden’s dance.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0If you wander by a river as it tumbles from the hills,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0And you hold your breath to listen to the music that it spills,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0You may gaze around and wonder if your eyes have learned to lie;
\n\u00a0 \u00a0For the Moon so far above you is now waltzing through the sky.<\/p>\n
Every note the spirit conjured floated upwards in the night,
\nAnd the ringing of the ripples joined the melody in flight.
\nEvery nightingale fell silent and the blackbirds ceased to sing,
\nAs the damsel wrapped their senses in her web of silver string.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0If you’ve ever heard your lover breathing softly in their sleep,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0And you’ve joined them in their dreaming as your souls began to leap,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Then you may have heard the music that the river spirit played
\n\u00a0 \u00a0To the Moon so soft and silver and the stars the night arrayed.<\/p>\n
Long ago when life seemed easy and the nights weren’t filled with noise
\nThere were spirits in each river and they each learned subtle ploys.
\nThey competed for attention and they made our world a shrine;
\nWhile the Moon who loved their music poured each maid a glass of wine.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nWritten to this image http:\/\/ap-pics2.gotpoem.com\/ap-pics\/contest\/2654\/3.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
River Music by cricketjeff on August 18, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When the spirit of the river stroked her fiddle with her bow, Far above the Moon was spellbound by the sounds she didn’t know, And the stars who lived to court her couldn’t get a second glance; As the silver light […]<\/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-5504","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5504","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=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5504\/revisions\/6005"}],"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=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}