{"id":42763,"date":"2017-08-06T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42763"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:55:24","slug":"strange-sweet-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/strange-sweet-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Sweet Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p>This poem is actually about Mopsy, the very first cat in our family, who lived to be a grand old lady of 19 and was named after the rabbits Mopsy, Flopsy, Cottontail and Peter, in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. :)<\/p>\n<h1>Strange Sweet Laughter<\/h1>\n<p>You will be remembered<br \/>\nyou will be missed<br \/>\nas sure as this<br \/>\ntime next year will come around again<br \/>\nleaving victims of the verb<br \/>\nto be Decembered.<\/p>\n<p>Neither taken by the hand nor kissed<br \/>\none more casualty of the vain<br \/>\nhope that New Year will change<br \/>\ntomorrow's game<br \/>\nand fortune will raise a glass<br \/>\nand join us getting pissed<br \/>\nor partaking some other herb or poison<br \/>\nto transform days<br \/>\ninto daydreams.<\/p>\n<p>With strange sweet laughter<br \/>\nPassed<br \/>\nlike water<br \/>\nstretching beyond the horizon<br \/>\nand the sunset after<br \/>\nevening glitter caught your eyes<br \/>\nand all else ceased to matter.<\/p>\n<p>You will be remembered<br \/>\namongst driftwood memories<br \/>\ndashed on rocks.<br \/>\nYou will be missed<br \/>\nand every sigh that passes lips<br \/>\nalong with breath<br \/>\nwill echo with your voice,<br \/>\nnever lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is actually about Mopsy, the very first cat in our family, who lived to be a grand old lady of 19 and was named after the rabbits Mopsy, Flopsy, Cottontail and Peter, in Beatrix Potter&#8217;s The Tale of Peter Rabbit. \ud83d\ude42 Strange Sweet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763","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\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42778,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions\/42778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}