{"id":168,"date":"2010-10-29T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-10-29T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:39:33","slug":"168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; The Shifting Tides Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Shifting Tides Of Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The water rises<br \/>\nHigh upon the shore<br \/>\nThen pulls back<br \/>\nOut to sea<br \/>\nLeaving change in its wake<\/p>\n<p>The moon tugs<br \/>\nThe ocean this way<br \/>\nAnd later it pulls<br \/>\nThat way as well<br \/>\nRising up and down like lovers<\/p>\n<p>But is it an ocean<br \/>\nOf water we see<br \/>\nOr a sea of love<br \/>\nMoving back and forth<br \/>\nToying with our hearts and minds?<\/p>\n<p>Each day brings<br \/>\nNew hope to us all<br \/>\nLittle highs and lows<br \/>\nChanging us little by little<\/p>\n<p>This is nature&#8217;s way<br \/>\nCycling in and out<br \/>\nPlaying with our hearts<br \/>\nTurning us around<br \/>\nOn the shifting tides of love<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoyed that whimsical bit of metaphorical free verse.<\/p>\n<p>On a separate note, if you haven&#8217;t seen <a title=\"The Daily Show with Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/wed-october-27-2010-barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart&#8217;s interview with President Obama<\/a>, you should.  It&#8217;s fantastic.  I&#8217;ll probably blog about it for my rant on Monday.  See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shifting Tides Of Love The water rises High upon the shore Then pulls back Out to sea Leaving change in its wake The moon tugs The ocean this way And later it pulls That way as well Rising up and down like lovers But is it an ocean Of water we see Or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}