{"id":1213,"date":"1991-09-14T22:31:04","date_gmt":"1991-09-15T05:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-10-24T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:31:47","slug":"harbor-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1991\/09\/14\/harbor-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbor Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dockside is a quiet place now.<br \/>\nThrough the veil of cloud,<br \/>\nNo moon or stars can break.<\/p>\n<p>The dominion of the night has been broken.<br \/>\nNo moon or stars can shine.<\/p>\n<p>Though harbor lights and the town&#8217;s behind,<br \/>\nThey shine<br \/>\nThe faint bustle of the town is heard.<br \/>\nIt is distant.<\/p>\n<p>The bustle of a town is so far away.<br \/>\nI cannot comprehend the melding of the two.<\/p>\n<p>Though this harbor is the town&#8217;s backbone<br \/>\nThe harbor now sleeps.<br \/>\nGlass-like water reflects the lights of the town.<br \/>\nI hear the sounds.<br \/>\nBut louder are the gentle lapping waves upon this boat;<br \/>\nThe faintly clanging halyards in the breeze;<br \/>\nClanging their percussive symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Voices sometimes break the silence.<br \/>\nMy own voice, too,<br \/>\nAs I sing to myself, and the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Singing songs of peace, and songs of the sea,<br \/>\nSongs of the life I would lead.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping harbor, your quietude fills me.<br \/>\nSleeping harbor, you harbor me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dockside is a quiet place now.<br \/> Through the veil of cloud,<br \/> No moon or stars can break.<\/p>\n<p>The dominion of the night has been broken.<br \/> No moon or stars can shine.<\/p>\n<p>Though harbor lights and the town&#8217;s behind,<br \/> They shine<br \/> The faint bustle of the town is heard.<br \/> It is distant.<\/p>\n<p>The bustle [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceans","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}