{"id":20177,"date":"2016-08-13T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20177"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:06:22","slug":"i-see-you-for-my-riska-poem-424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/i-see-you-for-my-riska-poem-424\/","title":{"rendered":"I See You (For My Riska) &#8211; Poem 4\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One moonless starry night<\/p>\n<p>When millions of sparkling diamonds<\/p>\n<p>Lay strewn across a black velvet sky<\/p>\n<p>I walked in a grove of whispering Oaks<\/p>\n<p>When suddenly I saw a wounded Star:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I picked you up and dusted you off<\/p>\n<p>And nurtured you back to health with love<\/p>\n<p>Until you were whole again\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the time came, I placed you in Orion<\/p>\n<p>To shine with all the other Stars;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are my OWN little Star\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Still shining, I see you \u2013 my Riska.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Antoinette LeRoux \u00a9 2016<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20213\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Riska-1-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Riska\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Riska-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Riska-1.jpg 392w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Riska-1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Riska &#8211; 1990 &#8211; 1998 &#8211; Lost to cancer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One moonless starry night When millions of sparkling diamonds Lay strewn across a black velvet sky I walked in a grove of whispering Oaks When suddenly I saw a wounded Star: &nbsp; I picked you up and dusted you off And nurtured you back to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20230,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}