{"id":105459,"date":"2013-04-07T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/105459\/poem-spring-magic\/"},"modified":"2013-04-07T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:03:50","slug":"poem-spring-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/105459\/poem-spring-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Spring Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#888888\"><strong><em>This was written to the theme of Butterfly Magic on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/105398\/magic-monday-9\/\">CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/user\/scotorum\/media\/CPCChallenges\/monarch_zpsd4aab2de.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/monarch_zpsd4aab2de.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo monarch_zpsd4aab2de.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"6\"><strong>SPRING MAGIC<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong> I spied with my springtime eye<br \/>\n one sunny afternoon,<br \/>\n a baby Monarch butterfly<br \/>\n no bigger than a prune.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It flittered with a flutter <br \/>\n that caused my heart to sigh.<br \/>\n My ears heard my mouth utter<br \/>\n &#8220;flutter by, butterfly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Monarch of the air you are<br \/>\n in royal colors draped<br \/>\n to outdazzle nighttime star<br \/>\n on wings which heaven shaped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Broken free from tight cocoon<br \/>\n where magic had transpired.<br \/>\n Its freedom arrived none too soon,<br \/>\n for poet&#8217;s muse inspired.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"5\"><strong> A gem of Mother Nature&#8217;s lore,<br \/>\n a truth without a lie.<br \/>\n I whispered wistfully once more:<br \/>\n &#8220;flutter by, butterfly.&#8221;<br \/>\n <\/strong><\/font> <br \/>\n <font size=\"3\"> Copyright April 7th 2013 RGD<\/font><br \/>\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the theme of Butterfly Magic on the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge. SPRING MAGIC I spied with my springtime eye one sunny afternoon, a baby Monarch butterfly no bigger than a prune. It flittered with a flutter that caused my heart to sigh. My ears heard my mouth utter &#8220;flutter by, [&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-105459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105459","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=105459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}