{"id":148,"date":"2016-10-05T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/esmeralda-dances\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:06:00","slug":"esmeralda-dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/esmeralda-dances\/","title":{"rendered":"Esmeralda Dances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><span>ESMERALDA DANCES<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span>\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry February 1971<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>Esmeralda dances<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Like a mist upon a crystal ship.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Floating on a night of eternity<\/span><br \/>\n<span>so far above me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and I kneel at her vision<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and take her flowers for her pride<\/span><br \/>\n<span>weaving spinning poems<\/span><br \/>\n<span>as she tenderly touches my heart with kisses<\/span><br \/>\n<span>like mink upon my human skin.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>And I tell her that I need her<\/span><br \/>\n<span>to bless me with her love,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I take her beads from Ghana<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and bring her jewels that sparkle.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Esmerelda, Esmerelda,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Esmerelda dances.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>In a gown of cinnamon<\/span><br \/>\n<span>against a crimson sky<\/span><br \/>\n<span>A cloak of satiny-purple<\/span><br \/>\n<span>parasols her thighs.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And she&#8217;s concious of her crown<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and calls to all her courtiers<\/span><br \/>\n<span>who rail to foin my glaik.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Reality rears its its head and paints with a brush<\/span><br \/>\n<span>of &nbsp;grey and black.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and warns me not to put<\/span><br \/>\n<span>all my jewels in one sack.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESMERALDA DANCES \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry February 1971 Esmeralda dances Like a mist upon a crystal ship. Floating on a night of eternity so far above me. and I kneel at her vision and take her flowers for her pride weaving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/esmeralda-dances\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}