{"id":429,"date":"2015-07-29T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=429"},"modified":"2021-05-30T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:29:39","slug":"no-longer-are-you-mine-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"No Longer Are You Mine [Classic] (12 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>This is an odd poem in that the second verse has a different pattern from the first verse &#8212; each corresponding line is twice as long.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>You can tell I wrote this in another part of the country, since my chosen tree is &#8216;maple&#8217; rather than, say, &#8216;redwood&#8217;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If snakes had wings<br \/>\nIf dogs could sing<br \/>\nShould laughter ring the hallowed halls<br \/>\nIf boulders sail<br \/>\nAnd maples wail<br \/>\nOnly then would my love pall<\/p>\n<p>They say there&#8217;re dragons. Without a choice<br \/>\nThe moon can make the hound give voice<br \/>\nAnd mirth is not a stranger to the holiest of shrines<br \/>\nVolcanoes spew forth rock and stone<br \/>\nA strong wind makes the forest moan<br \/>\nAnother one has won my heart, no longer are you mine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an odd poem in that the second verse has a different pattern from the first verse &#8212; each corresponding line is twice as long. You can tell I wrote this in another part of the country, since my chosen tree is &#8216;maple&#8217; rather than, say, &#8216;redwood&#8217;. If snakes had wings If dogs could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Longer Are You Mine [Classic] (12 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}