{"id":367,"date":"2011-02-18T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=367"},"modified":"2011-02-18T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:05:44","slug":"friday-poetry-alone-but-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Alone But With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alone But With You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stand alone<br \/>\nHere in my life<br \/>\nAll I desire<br \/>\nIs a wife<\/p>\n<p>Not by law<br \/>\nThat matters not<br \/>\nBut a shared love<br \/>\nFor which I fought<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was you<br \/>\nAnd hope I still hold<br \/>\nBut it seems not to be<br \/>\nYou seem so cold<\/p>\n<p>I want a love<br \/>\nI can share with the world<br \/>\nIt makes me so sad<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not that kind of girl<\/p>\n<p>You like to hold me<br \/>\nWith the lightest touch<br \/>\nHeld by your side<br \/>\nBut not by much<\/p>\n<p>You take all I&#8217;ll give<br \/>\nAnd give so little back<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a painful and different<br \/>\nKind of heart attack<\/p>\n<p>And so here I stay<br \/>\nStraining to move on<br \/>\nI hope our love grows<br \/>\nOr is forever gone<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>What is it about the ABCB rhyme scheme in poetry that I find so attractive?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know, but it&#8217;s my &#8220;fallback&#8221; style when I only want to put forth a minimal effort.\u00a0 Anyway, there&#8217;s my little poem for today.\u00a0 See you Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone But With You I stand alone Here in my life All I desire Is a wife Not by law That matters not But a shared love For which I fought I thought it was you And hope I still hold But it seems not to be You seem so cold I want a love [&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\/367"}],"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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}