{"id":2011,"date":"2026-05-07T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:37:56","slug":"nocturnal-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/nocturnal-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturnal Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pensively promenaded I, as impetuous as a poet,<\/p>\n<p>To accumulate few jocund inkling on dusk.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, not as a bard,<\/p>\n<p>But as a novice to nature.<\/p>\n<p>Stalked I, barefooted anigh lake;<\/p>\n<p>Jabbed some spines beneath my foot.<\/p>\n<p>Yon reconnoitred I, do any luminous light clandestined in water?<\/p>\n<p>Else, any celestial gem floats in lake?<\/p>\n<p>Nay! It\u2019s the waxing moon in the sky,<\/p>\n<p>That seemed to tread on water.<\/p>\n<p>Paddled I into the lake<\/p>\n<p>To grab some pallied lilies.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly perceived I any bloomed one!<\/p>\n<p>Had the lilies been sailed under false colour by moon?<\/p>\n<p>I knew not their intrigue,<\/p>\n<p>Nor had I prescient criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Chillness of water benumbed me;<\/p>\n<p>Retrieved I, as cool as a cucumber, to the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Is this terra God\u2019s palette?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously! Nature is the art of God.<\/p>\n<p>Dark grey was lake\u2019s scenario;<\/p>\n<p>Stood reeds augustly amidst the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Casuarina broke into tumult<\/p>\n<p>When the west wind passed adrifting it.<\/p>\n<p>Glow-worms scattered round the bushes;<\/p>\n<p>Heard I croaking of frogs.<\/p>\n<p>I felt languished by chillness<\/p>\n<p>That pierced my chest and nostrils.<\/p>\n<p>Homeward bound, strolled I,<\/p>\n<p>For I had been there behind my father\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>As being benumbed by drastic cold,<\/p>\n<p>I was at the end of my tether.<\/p>\n<p>Soon felt I in the arms of Morpheus,<\/p>\n<p>On the grass, supine anigh lake.<\/p>\n<p>By morning, I began to fly off at a tangent,<\/p>\n<p>When a highland lass harped on my shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>I began to know the ropes of that wintry night,<\/p>\n<p>For it cajoled me to sleep resembling lullaby.<\/p>\n<p>No human hardly be preponderate<\/p>\n<p>Than a mother and nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pensively promenaded I, as impetuous as a poet, To accumulate few jocund inkling on dusk. For sure, not as a bard, But as a novice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}