{"id":99295,"date":"2012-11-03T23:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/99295\/poem-marian-kind\/"},"modified":"2012-11-03T23:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T03:18:03","slug":"poem-marian-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/99295\/poem-marian-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: The Marian Kind"},"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 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/99283\/99283\/\">CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/romantic\/?action=view&amp;current=Francesco-Hayez-The-Kiss-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/romantic\/Francesco-Hayez-The-Kiss-.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>THE MARIAN KIND<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong>Inspired by the painting  &#8220;The Kiss&#8221; by Francesco Hayez<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>They called him Robin back in the &#8216;hood.<br \/>\nHe tried to do all the good he could.<br \/>\nWore bird feathers in his beige velvet cap.<br \/>\nThe homeboys made fun and gave him&#8230;a hard time.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Robin had Maid Marian in his nest.<br \/>\nShe had so outsnuggled all the rest.<br \/>\nHe fell for her like a duck in season.<br \/>\nShe warmed his worm with huggin&#8217; and squeezin&#8217;.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>One night when Robin was facing a hassle,<br \/>\ncaught in the Sheriff of Nottingham&#8217;s castle,<br \/>\nMarian mounted an escape for them both.<br \/>\nRobin took her aside and right then pledged his troth.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>While Sheriff and soldiers pursued them down halls,<br \/>\nRobin and Marian hid behind castle walls.<br \/>\nJust before their last scramble to give all a miss,<br \/>\nRobin held her tightly and planted a kiss.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Thus was their lovers&#8217; pact and their fate sealed.<br \/>\nThey ran up a stairway and out to a field.<br \/>\nHe held her hand as they ran off to freedom<br \/>\nwhere, with children in mind, they commenced to breed &#8217;em.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">Copyright November 4th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge. THE MARIAN KIND Inspired by the painting &#8220;The Kiss&#8221; by Francesco Hayez They called him Robin back in the &#8216;hood. He tried to do all the good he could. Wore bird feathers in his beige velvet cap. The homeboys made fun [&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-99295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99295","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=99295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}