{"id":1557,"date":"2015-03-24T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2016-04-19T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:27:50","slug":"three-roses-in-her-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/three-roses-in-her-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Roses In Her Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Three Roses She Held In Her Hand\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hj3Gcv00fQ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1560\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Three-Roses-in-Her-Hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Three-Roses-in-Her-Hand.jpg\" alt=\"Three Roses in Her Hand\" width=\"305\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Three-Roses-in-Her-Hand.jpg 305w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Three-Roses-in-Her-Hand-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Roses in Her Hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three roses she held in her hand<br \/>\nFor all the world to see<br \/>\nOne each from two Pretenders<br \/>\nA single rose from me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She sat there giggling, smiling<br \/>\nUnknowing she had my heart<br \/>\nNext to me who was so close<br \/>\nYet we were miles apart.<\/p>\n<p>It takes more than a gypsys roses<br \/>\nOr poems, this girls heart to win,<br \/>\nWho will fall for a charlatans words<br \/>\nAs false as these blooms, on a girlish whim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three roses she held in her hand For all the world to see One each from two Pretenders A single rose from me&#8230; She sat there giggling, smiling Unknowing she had my heart Next to me who was so close Yet we were miles apart. It takes more than a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[1731,362,1737,1736],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poems","tag-dawsie","tag-love","tag-love-token","tag-three-roses","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-p7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1865,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/roses-with-no-thorns-upon-their-stems\/","url_meta":{"origin":1557,"position":0},"title":"Roses With No Thorns Upon their Stems","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd April 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There were no thorns upon the stems That she held in her hand there Being as false as the love that did not exist Though I loved: her: she did not care... 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