{"id":1224,"date":"2006-08-24T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/24\/poetry-thursday-18\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:47:37","slug":"poetry-thursday-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/24\/poetry-thursday-18\/","title":{"rendered":"POETRY THURSDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love cool weather. Cool weather with sunshine. Warm enough to be outside, but cool enough to warrant a sweater. Leaves dropping to lie in scuffilicious piles. Clouds meandering like sky sheep, grazing over the blue. Flags snapping lazily in the barest of breezes. Heavy laden fruit trees. Haybales glowing in the sunshine. The delicious anticipation of the autumn leaves turning to flame.<\/p>\n<p><b>CYCLE<br \/>\nby Elizabeth Slaughter-Ek<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There is good in every thing,<br \/>\nWhen the wind begins to sing,<br \/>\nThe pumpkin grows<br \/>\nand your breath shows<br \/>\nThe scent of cider in your nose.<\/p>\n<p>There is good in every time.<br \/>\nThe trees begin their orange-red rhyme.<br \/>\nThe geese fly vvvvv&#8217;s<br \/>\nbefore the freeze,<br \/>\nMittens on hands around your knees.<\/p>\n<p>Summer puts itself to bed,<br \/>\nSweet dreams of sunshine in your head<br \/>\nto keep you warm<br \/>\nwait out the storm<br \/>\nAs seasons spiral round in form.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><b>More great poetry to be found over at <a href=\"http:\/\/poetrythursday.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poetry Thursday<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love cool weather. Cool weather with sunshine. Warm enough to be outside, but cool enough to warrant a sweater. Leaves dropping to lie in scuffilicious piles. Clouds meandering like sky sheep, grazing over the blue. Flags snapping lazily in the barest of breezes. Heavy laden fruit trees. Haybales glowing in the sunshine. The delicious anticipation of the autumn leaves turning to flame. CYCLE by Elizabeth Slaughter-Ek There is good in every thing, When the wind begins to sing, The pumpkin grows and your breath shows The scent of cider in your nose. There is good in every time. The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-poetrythursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}