{"id":5523,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5523"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the Forest<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 24, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nEvery clearing in the forest is a blend of dark and light<br \/>\nWhere you hear the dance of daylight and you sense the beasts of night<br \/>\nEvery tree gives birth to beauty and to dragons you can&#8217;t see<br \/>\nIn the forest life gives best to fantasy<\/p>\n<p>Close your eyes and you will hear her as she serenades her pet<br \/>\nAnd as long as she keeps playing there are fears you can forget<br \/>\nBut in silence he awakens and he stalks each woodland glade<br \/>\nFor the forest&#8217;s where the darkest dreams are made<\/p>\n<p>If you linger in the darkness or beneath the dappled sun<br \/>\nYou may be the latest victim of dryad&#8217;s sweetheart&#8217;s fun<br \/>\nYou will feel his breath behind you and will hear one final sound<br \/>\nIn the forest where your body may be found<\/p>\n<p>But if you are ever watchful and respect the spirits rules<br \/>\nYou can revel in the beauty and escape the fate of fools<br \/>\nNever wander from the pathways never dare to harm a tree<br \/>\nAnd the forest will be pleased to let you be.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nInspired by the contest picture, http:\/\/ap-pics2.gotpoem.com\/ap-pics\/contest\/<br \/>\n2657\/154.jpg Forgotten Fairytales by Sanguisegelidus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Forest by cricketjeff on October 24, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Every clearing in the forest is a blend of dark and light Where you hear the dance of daylight and you sense the beasts of night Every tree gives birth to beauty and to dragons you can&#8217;t see In the [&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-5523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5523","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=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5523\/revisions\/5985"}],"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=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}