{"id":179,"date":"2008-01-13T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/2008\/01\/13\/oh-coy-maiden\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T14:22:00","slug":"oh-coy-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/2008\/01\/13\/oh-coy-maiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh! Coy Maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos-323.friendster.com\/e1\/photos\/32\/32\/21632323\/37704809849055m.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-323.friendster.com\/e1\/photos\/32\/32\/21632323\/37704809849055m.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I,<br \/>wear a hot torture on my mind,<br \/>and turned cold as dry ice.<br \/>Am I worth the tears when you sleep<br \/>and a place in the illusions you keep?<br \/>Strength is what I seek with hope.<br \/>Oh God! give us the reason to cope,<br \/>These moments put me on a tight rope.<\/p>\n<p>You,<br \/>with those thousand kisses bright,<br \/>wish to be my soul.<br \/>Am I worth this noble mien?<br \/>As the warmth in the summer,<br \/>is the breath between your lips.<br \/>As the Rose in May heat,<br \/>can I provide the shade you seek?<\/p>\n<p>We,<br \/>Oh! Coy Maiden,<br \/>is it a perception or a torn heart?<br \/>Or a reflection of our nostalgia?<br \/>I wish not to annihilate my soul,<br \/>And I mean no harm to thee.<br \/>As a bramble steel,<br \/>understand: Never we can set ourselves free.<\/p>\n<p><em>Comments are not invited for this poem for personal reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I,wear a hot torture on my mind,and turned cold as dry ice.Am I worth the tears when you sleepand a place in the illusions you keep?Strength is what I seek with hope.Oh God! give us the reason to cope,These moments put me on a tight rope. You,with those thousand kisses bright,wish to be my soul.Am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/simplyjith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}