{"id":4929,"date":"2013-04-17T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2013-04-18T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T18:46:25","slug":"sonnet-6-in-iambic-tetrameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/17\/sonnet-6-in-iambic-tetrameter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet #6 in Iambic Tetrameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t know why I turned away.<br \/>\nI come to Athens to be born.<br \/>\nThe angel of goodbye will play<br \/>\nThrough even Aristotle&#8217;s horn.<\/p>\n<p>I will appear up from the sea.<br \/>\nI am again borne by the tides.<br \/>\nWill she agree to marry me?<br \/>\nI like her wild, surprised green eyes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In soaking water I&#8217;ll be found.<br \/>\nMy river loves the water blue.<br \/>\nI drink this love in which I drown<br \/>\nForever swimming here with you.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We surface and what do we find?<br \/>\nThat fairy hills are back alive.<\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">\u00a92013 Stephen K. Pickering<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(04-18-13<\/strong><\/span> <em>I edited this today and changed some things. Threw out the original last stanza and closing two lines. They are here below. I&#8217;m gonna keep them around here on the blog post. If I ever make it into a musical song, I&#8217;ll need another stanza, and maybe another refrain.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>You are the burning flame that rose<br \/>\nBut we can only feel the nail.<br \/>\nWhen spring azaleas colors explode,<br \/>\nYour spirit opens the sacred trail.<\/p>\n<p>I need to be outside with you.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re soaked with Sun and morning dew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I turned away. I come to Athens to be born. The angel of goodbye will play Through even Aristotle&#8217;s horn. I will appear up from the sea. I am again borne by the tides. Will she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/17\/sonnet-6-in-iambic-tetrameter\/\">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":[407,429,433],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets","tag-iambic-tetrameter","tag-poems","tag-sonnets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","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=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}