{"id":1642,"date":"2015-01-21T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/eroticbynature\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2015-01-21T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:23:31","slug":"love-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/2015\/01\/21\/love-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are times<\/p>\n<p>when all glory is dead,<\/p>\n<p>when magnificence sits shriveled in the corner<\/p>\n<p>whimpering sad laments,<\/p>\n<p>when Would Be<\/p>\n<p>and Could Be<\/p>\n<p>and Should Be<\/p>\n<p>disappear suddenly into the great Are Not,<\/p>\n<p>and I am left all alone<\/p>\n<p>with just plain me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like evening<\/p>\n<p>when the brilliant sunset loses its shine,<\/p>\n<p>when all color drains out of the sky<\/p>\n<p>leaving the sky gray,<\/p>\n<p>the trees gray,<\/p>\n<p>the birds gray,<\/p>\n<p>the soul a pile of ashes<\/p>\n<p>caught again by surprise,<\/p>\n<p>unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves a good sunset.<\/p>\n<p>But with you I can sit still<\/p>\n<p>and let my gray evening eyes<\/p>\n<p>meander slowly home.<\/p>\n<p>My most self-loving voice<\/p>\n<p>speaks from your face<\/p>\n<p>standing gently in the doorway:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Come in from the cold evening,<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s time to be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are times<\/p>\n<p>when all glory is dead,<\/p>\n<p>when magnificence sits shriveled in the corner<\/p>\n<p>whimpering sad laments,<\/p>\n<p>when Would Be<\/p>\n<p>and Could Be<\/p>\n<p>and Should Be<\/p>\n<p>disappear suddenly into the great Are Not,<\/p>\n<p>and I am left all alone<\/p>\n<p>with just plain me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like evening<\/p>\n<p>when the brilliant sunset loses its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}