{"id":173,"date":"2019-01-08T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:19:34","slug":"hold-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/hold-a-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold a moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<p>Version 1<\/p>\n<p>A day has past with time that passed so sweet,<br \/>\nThat I darn not consider stopping here<br \/>\nTo take the time to think. I persevere.<br \/>\nI want the sweetness to remain complete,<br \/>\nWithout a hint of anyone&#8217;s deceit.<br \/>\nIf maybe I can built a large round sphere<br \/>\nAround my world I can then disappear,<br \/>\nAnd sweetness will stay mine and more concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that never works but I can dream<br \/>\nThis dream and wish this wish and plan this scheme<br \/>\nSo I can have more time before things change<br \/>\nBecause given time it will turn out strange,<br \/>\nThen all the sweetness goes right up in smoke<br \/>\nAnd I will think this was one big sad joke.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Version 2<\/p>\n<p>A day has past with time that passed so sweet,<br \/>\nThat I darn not consider stopping here<br \/>\nTo take the time to think. I persevere.<br \/>\nI want the sweetness to remain complete,<br \/>\nWithout a hint of anyone&#8217;s deceit.<br \/>\nIf maybe I can built a large round sphere<br \/>\nAround my world I can then disappear,<br \/>\nAnd sweetness will stay mine and more concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that never works but I can dream,<br \/>\nAnd if I dream long enough it will appear<br \/>\nTo never leave my world of make believe.<br \/>\nThough this small world of mine might seem supreme<br \/>\nFor moments of short time, it is too clear<br \/>\nTo me, that it is me that I deceive.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Version 3<\/p>\n<p>A day has past with time that passed so sweet,<br \/>\nThat I darn not consider stopping here<br \/>\nTo take the time to think. I persevere.<br \/>\nI want the sweetness to remain complete,<br \/>\nWithout a hint of anyone&#8217;s deceit.<br \/>\nIf maybe I can built a large round sphere<br \/>\nAround my world I can then disappear,<br \/>\nAnd sweetness will stay mine and more concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that never works but I can dream,<br \/>\nAnd if I dream long enough it will appear<br \/>\nToo never leave and I will be supreme,<br \/>\nBut facts tell me it will all disappear.<br \/>\nSo I will keep what I can keep as long<br \/>\nAs I can now, and try to keep it strong.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Poem Style &#8211; Sonnet &#8211; Petrachan \/ Poem Catagory &#8211; Other<br \/>\nWritten by Lady Kathleen<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>3 versions of Petrachan Sonnet for the same poem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1 A day has past with time that passed so sweet, That I darn not consider stopping here To take the time to think. I persevere. I want the sweetness to remain complete, Without a hint of anyone&#8217;s deceit. If maybe I can built a large round sphere Around my world I can then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,44],"tags":[157,485,542,566,648,677,720,756,811],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","category-petrachan","tag-deceit","tag-moment-version","tag-other","tag-petrachan","tag-sad-joke","tag-short-time","tag-sphere","tag-sweetness","tag-version-1a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/Poetry-words.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKwh0-2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}