{"id":91423,"date":"2012-06-24T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91423\/poem-timewarp\/"},"modified":"2012-06-24T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:10:53","slug":"poem-timewarp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91423\/poem-timewarp\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Timewarp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written to the featured art on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/91419\/simple-sunday-muses-classical-menage\/#comment-273169\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The art is titled &#8220;Classical Menage.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=Classical_Menage_a_Trois_by_snowbat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/Classical_Menage_a_Trois_by_snowbat.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><strong>TIMEWARP<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><strong>The ghosts of divas from the past<br \/>\nswirled throughout the cosmos vast,<br \/>\nbrought back to earth con comet&#8217;s tail<br \/>\nto reprise the past senses&#8217; regale.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The second time around proved strange,<br \/>\nas fogbanks rolled from beach to range.<br \/>\nInside their homes no need to rise,<br \/>\nthe audience came by surprise.<br \/>\nSilent smoke formed old time faces,<br \/>\nswirls of hair and fancy laces.<br \/>\nWould residents have looked that way,<br \/>\nviews would have taken breath away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">None saw the eerie sight that night<br \/>\nof sopranos&#8217; and altos&#8217; flight,<br \/>\nalthough a few, while dozing off<br \/>\nheard vocalized old ballads soft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Next day, on waking, some discussed<br \/>\nhow dreams, as though from pixie dust,<br \/>\nhad lifted them on wings of time<br \/>\nback to when a lusty rhyme<br \/>\nor patriotic stirring march<br \/>\nhad proudly stiffened spines like starch<br \/>\nin bright blanched collars split by tie;<br \/>\nand every dreamer cast a sigh.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: medium;font-weight: bold;text-align: center\">Copyright June 24th 2012 RGD<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. \u00a0The art is titled &#8220;Classical Menage.&#8221; TIMEWARP The ghosts of divas from the past swirled throughout the cosmos vast, brought back to earth con comet&#8217;s tail to reprise the past senses&#8217; regale. The second time around proved strange, as fogbanks rolled [&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-91423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423","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=91423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}