{"id":111072,"date":"2013-09-08T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T04:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/111072\/poem-evas-gambit\/"},"modified":"2013-09-08T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T04:05:56","slug":"poem-evas-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/111072\/poem-evas-gambit\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Eva&#8217;s Gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\">This was written to the featured art on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/110971\/simple-sunday-contemplates-a-bargain-kept\/#comment-332173\">CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The art is by Rob \u00a0Rey and is titled &#8220;A Bargain Kept.&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/SSArt9813_zps90c638c1.jpg\" alt=\"SSArt9813 photo SSArt9813_zps90c638c1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"5\"><strong>EVA&#8217;S GAMBIT<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><font size=\"5\"> Eva Ivanova&#8217;s dream<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> was predicated on a scheme<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> to win the love of her young life<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> and dance through dreamland as his wife.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><font size=\"5\"> A magic potion was her hope<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> in psalter swung from velvet rope,<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> to swiftly find and win her prize<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> thus precluding lovers&#8217; lies.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><font size=\"5\"> But something hopped into her path,<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> passing through hot vapor&#8217;s bath.<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> Instead of prince to share her life,<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> Eva became frog prince&#8217;s wife.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><font size=\"5\"> The frog prince ruled the kingdom well.<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> o&#8217;er all subjects bound by spell<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> of Eva&#8217;s psalter potion&#8217;s power;<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"5\"> a bargain kept by magic dower.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"3\">Copyright Sept. 7 2013 RGD<\/font><font size=\"5\"> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge. \u00a0The art is by Rob \u00a0Rey and is titled &#8220;A Bargain Kept.&#8221; \u00a0 EVA&#8217;S GAMBIT Eva Ivanova&#8217;s dream was predicated on a scheme to win the love of her young life and dance through dreamland as his wife. A magic [&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-111072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111072","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=111072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}