{"id":566,"date":"2018-05-19T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T07:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=566"},"modified":"2023-10-14T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T00:03:59","slug":"the-sunset","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=566","title":{"rendered":"The Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_4615.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1138\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_4615.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night the sky threw a party.<br \/>\nThe clouds were the first to arrive,<br \/>\ndressed in their clean white party frocks.<\/p>\n<p>They mingled around,<br \/>\npolitely admiring the decorations<br \/>\nand sipping their drinks<\/p>\n<p>until the sun rushed in,<br \/>\nlate as usual and out of breath,<br \/>\nand collided with the drinks table.<\/p>\n<p>Crash! Splash!<br \/>\nOrange cordial and pink lemonade flew everywhere,<br \/>\ndrenching the clouds\u2019 white dresses.<\/p>\n<p>Those clouds were furious!<br \/>\nTheir cheeks flushed red<br \/>\nand they yelled and yelled at the unfortunate sun.<\/p>\n<p>The sky, always hating a scene,<br \/>\ntried to smooth things over<br \/>\nby bringing out the birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>They all sang <em>happy birthday,<\/em><br \/>\nloudly and slightly out of tune,<br \/>\nas the sun shuffled forward to get a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>But that clumsy sun got tangled in the tablecloth,<br \/>\nknocked the cake over, scattered the candles<br \/>\nand set the tablecloth alight! Grey smoke billowed out.<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassed,<br \/>\nthe sun slipped away from the party,<br \/>\nover the horizon and out of sight,<\/p>\n<p>leaving the clouds fuming with anger,<br \/>\ntheir splattered frocks<br \/>\nsmudged with grey.<\/p>\n<p>The sky sighed.<br \/>\nIt would try again<br \/>\ntomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2018<\/p>\n<p>This poem was first published in\u00a0<i>Orbit<\/i>, Issue No. 3, The School Magazine, April 2018. \u00a0It is also in my poetry book,\u00a0<em>To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?\u00a0<\/em>(Glimmer Press, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the sky threw a party. The clouds were the first to arrive, dressed in their clean white party frocks. They mingled around, politely admiring the decorations and sipping their drinks until the sun rushed in, late as usual and out of breath, and collided with the drinks table. Crash! Splash! Orange cordial and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":483,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions\/1139"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}