{"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><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hj3Gcv00fQ4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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_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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Six pounds too a year was due But in the afterlife it seems Money is dead, but instead Everything a promise means. She walks its\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Ballyseedy\"","block_context":{"text":"Ballyseedy","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tag\/ballyseedy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Hilda Blennerhasset is said to walk the floors of Ballyseedy Castle in Ballycarty in Kerry carrying a single red rose. Why the rose? 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