{"id":2603,"date":"2010-11-20T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2010-11-20T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T06:14:05","slug":"tulip-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2010\/tulip-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crossing names out of address books<br \/>\nAfter showers patter on a closed coffin<br \/>\nJust a passing moment gone<br \/>\nPutting down the pencil<br \/>\nTo look at the rain as it shifts<br \/>\nDancing in front of the window<br \/>\nAs the drops send ripples outward<br \/>\nPirouetting hand in hand with the grass<br \/>\nas each petal bends slightly under the weight<br \/>\nThe water pulling its face down like a tear drop<br \/>\nThe face turned upward catches the rain<br \/>\nBetween the lines in your face<br \/>\nCatching in the corner of your lips<br \/>\nAs a smile sneaks its way to your face<br \/>\nThe rain brushes your face<br \/>\nWith the tenderness of a lovers embrace<br \/>\nSliding down cheeks so the tears don\u2019t show<br \/>\nYou face the sky alone<br \/>\nWith forgotten names rolling off of you<br \/>\nFalling into muddied puddles<br \/>\nNever to be recovered, never to be remembered<br \/>\nSifting into the soil, becoming part of the earth<br \/>\nLike seeds weaving into the ground<br \/>\nReturning home from life<br \/>\nTo the warm embrace of the world\u2019s womb<br \/>\nWrapped in a veil of the earth\u2019s tears<br \/>\nFrom the earth but not of the earth<br \/>\nNot yet, for now you rest among the tulips<br \/>\nA shimmering rain drop<br \/>\nSending ripples into dreams<br \/>\nInto the minds of those who never knew you<br \/>\nDancing with the grass<br \/>\nI still miss you<br \/>\nI will find you in the tulips in the earths embrace<br \/>\nThere your name will be written again<br \/>\nNot in a book but in stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing names out of address books After showers patter on a closed coffin Just a passing moment gone Putting down the pencil To look at the rain as it shifts Dancing in front of the window As the drops send ripples outward Pirouetting hand in hand with the grass as each petal bends slightly under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1395,979,118,1393,1392,440,1394,1391,1390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}