{"id":4878,"date":"2013-04-09T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2013-04-09T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T01:26:52","slug":"sonnet-3-iambic-tetrameter-sacred-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/09\/sonnet-3-iambic-tetrameter-sacred-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet #3 in Iambic Tetrameter: A Sacred Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Sonnet #3 in iambic tetrameter &#8211; &#8220;A Sacred Dance&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI bring you roses to your door.<br \/>\nI make this offering in Spring.<br \/>\nI now know who this dove is for,<br \/>\nThat rises through the Sun&#8217;s gold ring.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something deeper going on.<br \/>\nI feel the pieces come apart.<br \/>\nThe mountain eagle soars at dawn.<br \/>\nAnd cries each piece of broken heart.<\/p>\n<p>I hold your scars around my breast.<br \/>\nI sing you songs of ocean rain.<br \/>\nI look up to the mountain&#8217;s crest<br \/>\nAnd feel you come alive again.<\/p>\n<p>Each breath we hold each other tight.<br \/>\nThe dove will feed our soul tonight.<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a92013 Stephen K. Pickering<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet #3 in iambic tetrameter &#8211; &#8220;A Sacred Dance&#8221; &nbsp; I bring you roses to your door. I make this offering in Spring. I now know who this dove is for, That rises through the Sun&#8217;s gold ring. There&#8217;s something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/09\/sonnet-3-iambic-tetrameter-sacred-dance\/\">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":[432,429,71],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets","tag-my-poetry","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","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=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}