{"id":318761,"date":"2020-03-09T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=318761"},"modified":"2020-03-09T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:00:50","slug":"t-o-a-s-t-tender-old-age-sonnet-tales-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/t-o-a-s-t-tender-old-age-sonnet-tales-2\/","title":{"rendered":"T.O.A.S.T.: Tender Old Age Sonnet Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Undercarriage of an Unhappy Marriage<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cCruel Man! I am not blind, your infidelity I find;<br \/>\nYour want of Love, my Ruin shows,<br \/>\nMy broken Heart, your broken Vows.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n <strong>\u2014Elizabeth Thomas (1675 &#8211; 1731)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAin\u2019t that the living truth,<br \/>\nain\u2019t that the loving proof<br \/>\npaint it on heaven\u2019s roof,<br \/>\n\u00a0ain\u2019t that the folly of youth<br \/>\nyou experience\u00a0 pleasure at my pain\u00a0<br \/>\nand more pleasure when you read<br \/>\nof my love lost and your gain<br \/>\nthough my love you sometimes need<br \/>\nour tumultuous turmoil may in time obtain<br \/>\nunlike Adam and Eve there is no original sin<br \/>\nbut ultimately love that soothes and entertains<br \/>\nus as a couple, a sweet place to begin\u00a0<br \/>\nstill married at least, our sexuality buried<br \/>\nno more wanton, no more beauty or beast.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>A Slight Touch of Pain<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf this be love\u2026 My pleasures horror. Music tragic notes.\u00a0<br \/>\nTears in mine eyes and sorrow in my heart.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Samuel Daniel (1562 \u2013 1619)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A slight touch of sadistic pain she had<br \/>\nin her frequent \u00a0bad moods yet very wise\u00a0<br \/>\nher intuition sometimes good sometimes bad<br \/>\noften caught me unawares and by surprise<br \/>\nher love often took some wrong turns<br \/>\nshe would smile and laugh but somehow<br \/>\nwould forget how her negativity burns<br \/>\nand I slowly healing can not forget it now<br \/>\nhurtful hateful words close loves door<br \/>\nbetween her and me a brain strain pain<br \/>\nthat has been shut many times before<br \/>\nOh that we could calmly work it out\u00a0<br \/>\nand lose the pettiness, pain, and pout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undercarriage of an Unhappy Marriage \u201cCruel Man! I am not blind, your infidelity I find;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-318761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}