{"id":839,"date":"2014-10-03T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2014-10-03T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T23:16:29","slug":"i-was-the-reluctant-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/i-was-the-reluctant-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was the Reluctant Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Was the Reluctant Lover\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-oeYdh5Ujw?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<blockquote><p>This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a rewrite, having lost the words to the original poem I had written<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was the reluctant lover<br \/>\nShe was a Goddess divine<br \/>\nI was not as brave as a man should be<br \/>\nAnd so her heart was never mine<\/p>\n<p>Oh, am I the fool of legend<br \/>\nAm I the only one<br \/>\nWho loved and lost as I never tossed<br \/>\nMy hat in the ring till the girl was gone?<\/p>\n<p>And as I look at the picture<br \/>\nHer face and smile come to mind<br \/>\nMay we always find a beautiful memory of another<br \/>\nThough we may never meet another of their kind.<\/p>\n<p>I was that hunter with his dogs<br \/>\nWho left the lady sitting naked and alone<br \/>\nTo hunt for all the vanities of life<br \/>\nAnd lost the lady he desired as his own.<\/p>\n<p>A hunter hunts for glory and alone<br \/>\nAnd relishes the company of his hound<br \/>\nBut the greatest hunt is of the heart<br \/>\nAnd for me will the quarry ever be found?<\/p>\n<p>Should she again come into my range<br \/>\nThen with arrows and hounds I shall descend<br \/>\nAnd stop the hunt, and run the hounds<br \/>\nAnd maybe for me be a happy end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a rewrite, having lost the words to the original poem I had written I was the reluctant lover She was a Goddess divine I was not as brave as &#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":[198,15],"tags":[1049,19,18,1048,17,730],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweetest-smile-poems","category-sweetest-smile-videopoems","tag-cinepoem","tag-lost-love","tag-love-poem","tag-poems-on-lost-love","tag-unrequited-love","tag-video-poetry-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-dx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":375,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/butterfly-she-flitted-and-settled-on-another-plant\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":0},"title":"Butterfly &#8211; She Flitted And Settled On Another Plant","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"9th August 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Butterfly long flown, now settled Tears I fight, happy her flight Brought her to this - tears of loss That is my own, blame also! 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