{"id":1398,"date":"2018-09-10T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:42:00","slug":"the-hanging-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/the-hanging-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hanging Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another little piece set out in verse. A dark tale for the hours of darkness. Do give it a read, comment if you so wish, for now here is:-<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hanging Tree by John Riley\/Thomas Flyte<\/span><\/p>\n

A tender young man o’er by hanging tree<\/span>
\ndid see another maid on bended knee,<\/span>
\nwith cut briar rose for one grave urn<\/span>
\nand silent thought until weather turn.<\/span><\/p>\n

When lunar face shining bright and full<\/span>
\nand night time beckons at rainfalls lull,<\/span>
\ncast in shadow upon hillside mound<\/span>
\nbeneath tree a man waits his mistress found.<\/span><\/p>\n

Court does this suitor a maiden so fair<\/span>
\nand startles appearing from out of nowhere.<\/span>
\nFrom behind gravestone to offer his charm<\/span>
\nwhile skies turn stormy at nature’s alarm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their love did grow from that stormy night<\/span>
\na secret courting o’er full moonlight.<\/span>
\nHe feels the warmth of her tiny hand<\/span>
\nupon the hilltop where they stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so did nature send storms and rain<\/span>
\nthat crash and bang but all in vain.<\/span>
\nSoaked to the skin they dash on foot<\/span>
\nto shelter in old gravedigger’s hut.<\/span><\/p>\n

She steals a kiss from lips so cold<\/span>
\nforgetting the things she’s been told.<\/span>
\nHis skin so pale and ice to touch<\/span>
\nnow townsfolk cry its all too much.<\/span><\/p>\n

In unhallowed plots sleep the brokenhearted<\/span>
\nnecks pulled long when life soon parted.<\/span>
\nBewitched by a love who never dies<\/span>
\nthose stolen kisses under stormy skies.<\/span><\/p>\n

All Rights Reserved copyright John Riley\/Thomas Flyte<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here’s another little piece set out in verse. A dark tale for the hours of darkness. Do give it a read, comment if you so wish, for now here is:- The Hanging Tree by John Riley\/Thomas Flyte A tender young man o’er by hanging tree did see another maid on bended knee, with cut briar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[3,166,95],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-riley","tag-john-riley","tag-the-hanging-tree","tag-thomas-flyte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}