{"id":115333,"date":"2014-03-08T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T04:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115333\/poem-midnight-spirit\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T04:34:02","slug":"poem-midnight-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115333\/poem-midnight-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: MIDNIGHT SPIRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><em>This was written to the featured art on this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/115317\/simple-sunday-picture-challenge-has-a-peak-district-experience\/\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The art is by Ann Merie Bone of England, and is titled the same as my poem.<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px none #e1e1e1;padding: 2px;margin: 0px auto 8px;color: #2c3635;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #dae5d6;width: 900px;height: 664px\" src=\"http:\/\/fc06.deviantart.net\/fs70\/i\/2014\/066\/3\/f\/midnight_spirit_by_annmariebone-d799wqq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"664\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\"><strong>MIDNIGHT SPIRIT<\/strong><\/font><strong><\/strong><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"> To get a bit of fresh air,<br \/>\n relief from the whirl of celebrations,<br \/>\n and view the midnight Mardi Gras merriment<br \/>\n from a wider perspective,<br \/>\n she stepped into nearby woods<br \/>\n in her shimmering white gown.<br \/>\n Bright colors from the colored lanterns <br \/>\n on the streets reflected off the trees<br \/>\n and onto the surface of the river.<br \/>\n As she stepped back <br \/>\n to get a better view,<br \/>\n she slipped and fell <br \/>\n into the cold rushing water.<\/p>\n<p> Now they say, in the &#8220;dead&#8221; of night<br \/>\n at Mardi Gras time,<br \/>\n if you walk into that woods,<br \/>\n or stand on the other side of the river,<br \/>\n you may see her ghost, <br \/>\n still dresed in white,<br \/>\n standing at the river&#8217;s edge, <br \/>\n pondering her fate.<br \/>\n<\/font> <br \/>\n<font size=\"3\"> March 8th 2014 RGD<br \/>\n<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><\/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. \u00a0The art is by Ann Merie Bone of England, and is titled the same as my poem. MIDNIGHT SPIRIT To get a bit of fresh air, relief from the whirl of celebrations, and view the midnight Mardi Gras merriment from [&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-115333","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\/115333","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=115333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}