{"id":109799,"date":"2013-08-10T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T02:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/109799\/poem-starcrossed\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T02:34:20","slug":"poem-starcrossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/109799\/poem-starcrossed\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: STARCROSSED"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written to the image below by Matt Haker of Dresden, Germany, our featured artist and photographic artwork on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>, titled “Dancing Under The Stars.”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"SSArt81113<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

STARCROSSED<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Before the days of Philip Two
\n when Armada’s ill wind blew through,
\n further before their world grew new
\n and o’er so much empire flags flew.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

‘Twas at the Duke’s great hacienda
\n just outside of Barcelona
\n where Ferdinand of Aragon
\n first saw lovely Isabella.<\/p>\n

She the princess of Castile.
\n Her necklace bore the royal seal.
\n At the ball she stunned anon,
\n setting Ferd back on each heel.<\/p>\n

He curtsied to ask her to dance,
\n already in a smitten trance.
\n Then held her tight throughout the night,
\n basking in Izzy’s loving glance.<\/p>\n

Musicians played while couples swayed.
\n The Duke’s approving smile betrayed.
\n And when all fingers touched the dawn,
\n two lovers’ bond was sealed with jade.<\/p>\n

Now peeling paint on crumbled stone.
\n The crime of time left long alone.
\n So far since fates were dealt for Spain,
\n darkness erased by new light shone.<\/p>\n

Once hallowed halls now blind and mute
\n No more the lyre or the lute,
\n or echoes of the greatness lost.
\n No way to ignorance refute.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Historic chapters written thus
\n by chemistry and passion’s lust.
\n Spain united by true love,
\n to power quest of Columbus.
\n <\/strong><\/font>
\n Copyright August 10th 2013 RGD<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n


\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written to the image below by Matt Haker of Dresden, Germany, our featured artist and photographic artwork on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge, titled “Dancing Under The Stars.” \u00a0 STARCROSSED Before the days of Philip Two when Armada’s ill wind blew through, further before their world grew new and o’er so much […]<\/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-109799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109799","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=109799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}