{"id":115177,"date":"2014-03-01T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115177\/poem-paradise-lost\/"},"modified":"2014-03-01T22:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:50:48","slug":"poem-paradise-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115177\/poem-paradise-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Paradise Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written to the featured art on this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/115161\/simple-sunday-roams-the-ruins\/\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>The art is titled &#8220;Ruins 022814&#8221; and is by American artist Jereme Peabody<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px none #e1e1e1;padding: 2px;line-height: normal;text-align: center;margin: 0px auto 8px;color: #2c3635;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #dae5d6;width: 1024px;height: 555px\" src=\"http:\/\/fc07.deviantart.net\/fs71\/i\/2014\/059\/b\/9\/ruins_20140228_by_jjpeabody-d78ayua.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\"><strong>PARADISE LOST<\/strong><\/font><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong> The wizard had warned her <br \/>\n she could never return.<br \/>\n But she had not listened;<br \/>\n curiosity burned.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To see what the future <br \/>\n might hold for the better.<br \/>\n For there seemed so many<br \/>\n opportunities for her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The spell made a space warp,<br \/>\n sent her ahead in time;<br \/>\n the fourteenth century<br \/>\n left very far behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But she could still visit<br \/>\n where it had all happened.<br \/>\n Bell of the prince&#8217;s ball<br \/>\n a whole lifetime to spend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">She knew adoration<br \/>\n from both prince and the court.<br \/>\n Too much of a burden,<br \/>\n or too lightly a sport?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Now as she strolled slowly<br \/>\n into ruined Great Hall,<br \/>\n the memories flooded<br \/>\n her sad heart wall to wall.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong> Now deeply regretted<br \/>\n flight away from her test,<br \/>\n realizing at last<br \/>\n that past time was the best.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"4\"> Copyright March 1, 2014 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the featured art on this week&#8217;s CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. The art is titled &#8220;Ruins 022814&#8221; and is by American artist Jereme Peabody PARADISE LOST The wizard had warned her she could never return. But she had not listened; curiosity burned. To see what the future might hold for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115177","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=115177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}