{"id":2578,"date":"2014-07-08T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:23:26","slug":"come-beloved-by-charles-bane-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/come-beloved-by-charles-bane-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Come, Beloved by Charles Bane Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/charles-bane-jr-bust.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2579 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/charles-bane-jr-bust.jpg\" alt=\"charles bane jr - bust\" width=\"282\" height=\"270\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 282px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 282\/270;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Come, Beloved<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Charles Bane Jr.<\/p>\n<p>I am hungry; come soon. I looked<br \/>\ntonight at flames like you upon<br \/>\nthe west and jewels winging<br \/>\nhome. I hold you in my eyes<br \/>\nwhen I see what cannot<br \/>\nbe stamped again. All the earth<br \/>\nis of a kind but for the rarities<br \/>\nthat clamber unknowing of their<br \/>\ngifts on vales of purest light,<br \/>\nand look at the common life<br \/>\nof us in shade. Come beloved,<br \/>\nsoon.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Charles Bane, Jr. is the American author of The Chapbook ( Curbside Splendor, 2011) and Love Poems ( Kelsay Books, 2014). His work was described by the Huffington Post as &#8220;not only standing on the shoulders of giants, but shrinking them.&#8221; Creator of the Meaning of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project, he is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Bane, Jr. is the American author of The Chapbook ( Curbside Splendor, 2011) and Love Poems ( Kelsay Books, 2014). His work was described by the Huffington Post as &#8220;not only standing on the shoulders of giants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2579,"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":[416,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erotic-poems","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}