{"id":1223,"date":"1991-10-27T22:59:05","date_gmt":"1991-10-28T06:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2012-10-24T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T06:01:46","slug":"last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1991\/10\/27\/last-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the last bright days,<br \/>\nnow passed,<br \/>\nrecede into the vast expance<br \/>\nI call my experience<br \/>\nA newer force appears and moves<br \/>\nIn to its place in time.<\/p>\n<p>I ponder moments of this last short summer<br \/>\nReceding waves of time now passed.<\/p>\n<p>The wide, wide open blue<br \/>\nOf the skies o&#8217;erhead,<br \/>\nAnd the places that I went&#8211;<br \/>\nNow only memories.<\/p>\n<p>The places that I have<br \/>\nvisited&#8211;still visit in my heart.<br \/>\nAll the places I have known and loved.<\/p>\n<p>I recall a thrashing moment<br \/>\nrunning down a hill,<br \/>\nalong a winding trail, to a valley floor;<\/p>\n<p>I recall a blissful moment<br \/>\nRevelling in the life<br \/>\nreverently watching whales<br \/>\nas they crossed the bow;<\/p>\n<p>I recall a serene, surreal moment,<br \/>\nwatching a painted sky<br \/>\nof red, orange and yellow,<br \/>\nfade into the ink of night;<\/p>\n<p>I recall a happy moment<br \/>\nwhen a familiar smile,<br \/>\na happy loving face I know<br \/>\ndid come and hold me near.<\/p>\n<p>I recall so many moments,<br \/>\nthough disjointed in the sequence of time,<br \/>\nnow united in my memories:<br \/>\nInto a string of happiness.<\/p>\n<p>A string of happy moments,<br \/>\nNow I call my past,<br \/>\nHappy, solemn moments of a summer<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s now over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the last bright days,<br \/> now passed,<br \/> recede into the vast expance<br \/> I call my experience<br \/> A newer force appears and moves<br \/> In to its place in time.<\/p>\n<p>I ponder moments of this last short summer<br \/> Receding waves of time now passed.<\/p>\n<p>The wide, wide open blue<br \/> Of the skies o&#8217;erhead,<br \/> And [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-poems","category-social","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","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=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}