{"id":1209,"date":"2007-07-10T06:04:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/07\/10\/melancholy-poetry\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T11:04:46","slug":"melancholy-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/07\/melancholy-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"MELANCHOLY POETRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melancholy poetry,<br \/>\nlisten to me sing of thee.<br \/>\nTo those that want to hear \u2011<br \/>\nin the pubs with their beers.<br \/>\nDrinking away their fears;<br \/>\nThey mumble to their peers \u2011 no one hears!<\/p>\n<p>They go on believing in each other \u2011<br \/>\n&amp; soon this endless cycle with crush &amp; smother<br \/>\n\u2011 each child, father, &amp; mother!<br \/>\nThey continue trying to get away \u2011<br \/>\nBut the rock keeps rolling their way;<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;ll catch &#8217;em \u2011 ONE DAY!<\/p>\n<p>All life gives up it&#8217;s breath,<br \/>\nTo lie in the sleep of death.<br \/>\nMaybe one day each&#8217;ll regain breath!<\/p>\n<p>Melancholy poetry \u2011<br \/>\nlisten to me sing of thee.<br \/>\nYour sweet melody<br \/>\nwill always carry me;<br \/>\nBeyond what they expect of you.<br \/>\nWell soar like white condors through<br \/>\nwhatever you have for me to do!<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll soar through eternity<br \/>\nwhile I sleep my eternal rest with thee.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1993\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melancholy poetry, listen to me sing of thee. To those that want to hear \u2011 in the pubs with their beers. Drinking away their fears; They mumble to their peers \u2011 no one hears! They go on believing in each other \u2011 &amp; soon this endless cycle with crush &amp; smother \u2011 each child, father, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}