{"id":100819,"date":"2012-12-03T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100819\/poem-star-power\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T06:31:17","slug":"poem-star-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100819\/poem-star-power\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Star Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written to the picture below, one of the illustrations in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/100239\/monday-magic-magic-wishing-star\/\">CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge<\/a>, where the topic is wishing on a star.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/?action=view&amp;current=Starbright.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/Starbright.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong>STAR POWER<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Looking into dark sky one night,<br \/>\nI saw a most unusual sight.<br \/>\nA star came unglued from its mount,<br \/>\nand left the rest, still beyond count.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>It streaked the sky with bright white light,<br \/>\nthen dropped abruptly from its flight,<br \/>\nburning through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere<br \/>\nuntil its remnant crashed quite near.<br \/>\nIn fact, that&#8217;s where it was, right here.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>About the size of crystal ball,<br \/>\nbut oh so bright, it shone on all.<br \/>\nIts magic worked to expand hearts<br \/>\nwhich then were pierced by Cupid&#8217;s darts.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>The loving then was fixed upon<br \/>\nthe first one seen, caused swoon anon.<br \/>\nNo conflict seen from that day on<br \/>\nNor any face again was wan.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>The hosts above each night would hear<br \/>\nno more wishes from want or fear.<br \/>\nAffection, laughter, joy arose,<br \/>\nintensifying starlight glows.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">Copyright December 3rd 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the picture below, one of the illustrations in this week&#8217;s CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge, where the topic is wishing on a star. STAR POWER Looking into dark sky one night, I saw a most unusual sight. A star came unglued from its mount, and left the rest, still beyond count. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}