{"id":5142,"date":"2013-09-13T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2013-10-18T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:23:14","slug":"a-new-sonnet-cross-of-lorraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/13\/a-new-sonnet-cross-of-lorraine\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Sonnet: Cross of Lorraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross of Lorraine<\/p>\n<p>I wanted down the cotton pine below.<br \/>\nIt seemed the dream was calling from their root.<br \/>\nI had escaped the cocktail party show:<br \/>\nThe empty voices blocking nature&#8217;s tune.<\/p>\n<p>The recent summons in the field of time:<br \/>\nOur river&#8217;s bridge was rotting but still there.<br \/>\nPerhaps it was just merely warmth from wine,<br \/>\nI melted down that rickety old stair.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered would your eyes still have that glow<br \/>\nIf I could somehow reach across our lives;<br \/>\nAnd swim the river down our muddy soul<br \/>\nWhere love forever dances in the night?<\/p>\n<p>Our little eyes that swim the river&#8217;s floor:<br \/>\nTheir secret depths open new love&#8217;s door.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 2013 Stephen Pickering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I swim the river wide<br \/>\nHoping to find you inside<br \/>\nThis new life.<\/p>\n<address>Related Posts&#8221;<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/2011\/06\/21\/a-new-sonnet-emerald-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>A New Sonnet: &#8220;The Emerald River&#8221;<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross of Lorraine I wanted down the cotton pine below. It seemed the dream was calling from their root. I had escaped the cocktail party show: The empty voices blocking nature&#8217;s tune. The recent summons in the field of time: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/13\/a-new-sonnet-cross-of-lorraine\/\">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":[70,429],"class_list":["post-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets","tag-poem","tag-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","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=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}