{"id":2919,"date":"2021-11-15T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:51:35","slug":"griefs-dance-by-shelley-smithson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2021\/11\/15\/griefs-dance-by-shelley-smithson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Grief&#8217;s Dance&#8221; by Shelley Smithson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Your ache splits the rays of sunshine<br>Scatters the light through the clouds<br>Drenching the days with dreams raining down<br>Just to rise again with the heat of your heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In songs of birds, in the flapping of their wings<br>Your love story carries on\u2014<br>The beating wind, leaves lush and eager<br>Spinning through the air to the ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Softening your path as you search<br>Thrusting your hands upwards to the hushed sky<br>You feel him now, a timeless canopy \u2014<br>In fields you dance with the fireflies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Shelley Smithson is an emerging poet, writing for the love of expressing emotions in the form of images and phrases. She is a psychotherapist in her professional life and loves being in nature with family and friends. She relishes beating her husband at cribbage and likes dark cloudy days as much as the sunshine days of her home town of Elk Rapids, MI.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your ache splits the rays of sunshineScatters the light through the cloudsDrenching the days with dreams raining downJust to rise again with the heat of your heart In songs of birds, in the flapping of their wingsYour love story carries on\u2014The beating wind, leaves lush and eagerSpinning through the air to the ground Softening your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2021\/11\/15\/griefs-dance-by-shelley-smithson\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-L5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}