{"id":1672,"date":"2015-05-10T15:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2016-02-01T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T22:07:38","slug":"summer-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"summer breeze  ~  CAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is dedicated to my first love as a teenager, CAM. \u00a0 The many love poems I wrote to her, helped me\u00a0as an adult to appreciate and comprehend the power of the many female muses that have influenced my creativity as an artist. \u00a0 Peace and love CAM.<\/p>\n<p>I dream of a world<br \/>\nfull of peace<br \/>\npeace can be real<br \/>\nright \u00a0 ~<br \/>\n&#8217;cause like the air<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 flowing through<br \/>\nmy lungs<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve felt<br \/>\nand still remember peace<br \/>\nits presence<br \/>\nas a teenager<br \/>\nin the afternoon<br \/>\nwhile laying<br \/>\non my bed<br \/>\ndaydreaming<\/p>\n<p>~ \u00a0 \u00a0sometimes<br \/>\nabout my first love<br \/>\nCAM<br \/>\nwho had moved away<br \/>\nfrom Freeland<br \/>\nto Zilwaukee<br \/>\nshe inspired me to write<br \/>\nmany love poems<br \/>\nlater to help me<br \/>\nappreciate and comprehend<br \/>\nthe power<br \/>\nof the many<br \/>\nfemale muses<br \/>\nthat have<br \/>\ninfluenced my creativity<br \/>\nas an artist \u00a0 \u00a0~<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d hear<br \/>\nthe chimes clanging<br \/>\nout in the yard<br \/>\nfrom the summer breeze &#8230;..<br \/>\n&#8230;. \u00a0 \u00a0blowing<br \/>\nthrough the window<br \/>\nscreen \u00a0&#8230;..<br \/>\nyes<br \/>\npeace<br \/>\nmomentarily<br \/>\ncomforted me<br \/>\nmade me feel at ease<br \/>\nsimilar<br \/>\nto the feeling you get<br \/>\non a summer vacation<br \/>\nafter the martini<br \/>\nsets in for the night<br \/>\nthank you<br \/>\nSchmidt &amp; Regine<br \/>\nSeals &amp; Crofts<br \/>\nfor <em>Summer Breeze<\/em><br \/>\nand to the essence<br \/>\nof breeze<br \/>\nthrough a window \u00a0 ~<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0the hope for peace<br \/>\nit gives<br \/>\nand too<br \/>\nthe sweet memories<br \/>\nof love<\/p>\n<p>peace out<\/p>\n<p>Words by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n<p>This poem will be a part of the June edition that&#8217;s a collaboration by the 2015 Poetry Posse \u00a0&#8211; The Year of the Poet II published by Inner Child Press. \u00a0 Buy your monthly copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/the-year-of-the-poet.php\" target=\"_blank\">Here: http:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/the-year-of-the-poet.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsW8rXPcnM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is dedicated to my first love as a teenager, CAM. \u00a0 The many love poems I wrote to her, helped me\u00a0as an adult to appreciate and comprehend the power of the many female muses that have influenced my creativity as an artist. \u00a0 Peace and love CAM. I dream of a world full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;summer breeze  ~  CAM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poertyposse2015","category-wordimagerystyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}