{"id":1707,"date":"2013-06-13T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:22:59","slug":"rocket-by-pamela-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/rocket-by-pamela-riley\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket by Pamela Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ril.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1710 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ril.jpg\" alt=\"ril\" width=\"313\" height=\"362\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 313px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 313\/362;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3014\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rocket<\/h1>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">by Pamela Riley<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3013\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3012\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2993\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3011\">I hear the rustle<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3010\">of thick lipped sequoias<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3005\">tip-toeing on the wind;<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3004\">while underneath the bracken<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3003\">the light is barely breathing.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3002\">Take me where the moon<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3001\">will not drop below the horizon<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_3000\">and the call of morning doves<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2999\">is but a passing life &#8211; andromeda.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2998\">I want the cool rapture of stars<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2997\">and the false color of evensong<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2996\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2994\">jettisoning the sky<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371096027243_2992\">like a rocket.<\/div>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Pam Riley is a native New Yorker, who still misses the Big Apple. She likes to spend her free time going to the theatre, museums and traveling. She has been writing for years and enjoys working in both poetry and prose. The little quirks and imperfections of life are her inspiration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Riley is a native New Yorker, who still misses the Big Apple. She likes to spend her free time going to the theatre, museums and traveling. She has been writing for years MORE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,319,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-poem","category-moon-poem","category-summer-contest-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}