{"id":12293,"date":"2015-06-14T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:22:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:22:27","slug":"lullaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/lullaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Lullaby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the deep midnight blue<br \/>\nhidden in the creche dark<br \/>\ncame the softest, sweetest song<br \/>\na crooning, lowing lullaby baby<br \/>\nto a green-jealous moon<br \/>\nand a stilling heart.<br \/>\nThe private audience heart<br \/>\nin that deepening blue<br \/>\ndid watch a blushing moon<br \/>\nbeam in the dark<br \/>\na tune sweet to a baby<br \/>\na wordless honey-breath song.<br \/>\nthe tender-voiced song<br \/>\nwhose refrain touched heart<br \/>\nto a restful, sleepy baby<br \/>\nwith delicate closed eyes blue<br \/>\nin the fading dark<br \/>\nto a waning moon.<br \/>\nAnd to the sickly moon<br \/>\nnot a gentle crooning song<br \/>\nin the predawn dark<br \/>\nbut from a loving heart<br \/>\nto that sweet boy blue<br \/>\nthe loved restful baby.<br \/>\nThat handsome baby<br \/>\nwhose jealous moon<br \/>\npaled green from blue<br \/>\nof that hummed song<br \/>\nfrom now a wishful heart<br \/>\nin the slowly lighting dark.<br \/>\nAnd from the lighting dark<br \/>\nthere stirred a sleeping baby<br \/>\nin the gentle loved heart<br \/>\nfar from that weak moon<br \/>\na love song<br \/>\nto a coming blue.<br \/>\nNo longer to linger dark nor ill moon<br \/>\nstirred my dear baby my singing song<br \/>\nfrom one full heart to eyes of blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the deep midnight blue hidden in the creche dark came the softest, sweetest song a crooning, lowing lullaby baby to a green-jealous moon and a stilling heart. The private audience heart in that deepening blue did watch a blushing moon beam in the dark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12297,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions\/12297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}