{"id":4067,"date":"2011-06-21T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2013-09-25T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T22:25:46","slug":"a-new-sonnet-emerald-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/21\/a-new-sonnet-emerald-river\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Sonnet: The Emerald River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which city does the emerald river flow<br \/>\nWhere flowers dance in secret sacred shapes?<br \/>\nSymbolic eyes forgotten long ago,<br \/>\nIts palace mystery singing to the Fates.<\/p>\n<p>The grand old river swells the earthen banks.<br \/>\nThe deep wood&#8217;s breath is like a lover&#8217;s song.<br \/>\nIts mystic water rises where love sank.<br \/>\nWe hold on floating down where we belong.<\/p>\n<p>The waters deep each morning fill the Sun.<br \/>\nAn orange glow that fills our eyes and hearts.<br \/>\nThe moonlight shimmers where our souls should run.<br \/>\nThese circles light the spaces where love starts.<\/p>\n<p>I dream the day when she will turn and say<br \/>\nJoy streaming from her eye, &#8220;You finally came.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>\u00a92013 Stephen K. Pickering<\/h5>\n<address>Related Posts:<\/address>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/2013\/09\/13\/a-new-sonnet-cross-of-lorraine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>A New Sonnet: Cross of Lorraine\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which city does the emerald river flow Where flowers dance in secret sacred shapes? Symbolic eyes forgotten long ago, Its palace mystery singing to the Fates. The grand old river swells the earthen banks. The deep wood&#8217;s breath is like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/21\/a-new-sonnet-emerald-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,36],"tags":[70,125],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets","tag-poem","tag-sonnet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}