{"id":143,"date":"1985-09-09T23:42:12","date_gmt":"1985-09-10T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:12:34","slug":"seven-flickering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/09\/seven-flickering\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Flickering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Candles,<br \/>\nSeven Lights,<br \/>\nCast their rays<br \/>\nUnto the night;<br \/>\nThis night in day,<br \/>\nThis death in life.<br \/>\nSeven candles&#8217;<br \/>\nFlickering light.<\/p>\n<p>A small flame flickering<br \/>\nNo body dare touch,<br \/>\nFor small as flames may flicker<br \/>\nThe burn of fire&#8217;s too much.<\/p>\n<p>Seven candles,<br \/>\nSeven lights;<br \/>\nBring into view<br \/>\nThe earthly plight.<br \/>\nFrom within my Soul,<br \/>\nFrom outside the world,<br \/>\nFrom seven candles<br \/>\nLight the rest.<\/p>\n<p>From my burning Light<br \/>\nI try to get your candle lit.<br \/>\nNothing&#8217;s lost in lighting yours:<br \/>\nBut brighter Light shines from it.<\/p>\n<p>Seven candles,<br \/>\nSeven Lights,<br \/>\nPierce the darkness<br \/>\nOf earthly plight:<br \/>\nMy candle burning,<br \/>\nMy Spirit yearning<br \/>\nTo set the world ablaze<br \/>\nIn the darkness of life&#8217;s daze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Candles,<br \/> Seven Lights,<br \/> Cast their rays<br \/> Unto the night;<br \/> This night in day,<br \/> This death in life.<br \/> Seven candles&#8217;<br \/> Flickering light.<\/p>\n<p>A small flame flickering<br \/> No body dare touch,<br \/> For small as flames may flicker<br \/> The burn of fire&#8217;s too much.<\/p>\n<p>Seven candles,<br \/> Seven lights;<br \/> Bring into [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-songs","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}