{"id":100138,"date":"2021-06-27T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100138"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:15:26","slug":"hour-18-muted-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-18-muted-text-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18 &#8211; Muted (text prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use this image and\/ or the line it contains \u201c\u2026just be still, and listen\u201d as a jumping off piece. Full credit goes to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shlokashankar.com\/\">\u00a0Shlokla Shankar<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100165\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/129861432_10159239728674683_8545266056144622931_o-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/129861432_10159239728674683_8545266056144622931_o-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/129861432_10159239728674683_8545266056144622931_o-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/129861432_10159239728674683_8545266056144622931_o-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/129861432_10159239728674683_8545266056144622931_o-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/129861432_10159239728674683_8545266056144622931_o-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was cursed at a young age with<\/p>\n<p>A mouth that spewed fabric whenever I spoke<\/p>\n<p>Muffling my words and leaving me muted<\/p>\n<p>They tried finding the source with an x-ray<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring two flaws<\/p>\n<p>Fabric is invisible<\/p>\n<p>And curses are magic<\/p>\n<p>Stronger than physical science most days.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to explain but choked and sputtered<\/p>\n<p>As they tore the cloth from my lips<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to tell them<\/p>\n<p>Indeed I had tried<\/p>\n<p>But they just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I devoted years to communication after<\/p>\n<p>Hiding how stunted my trust in them was<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t just tell them what was wrong<\/p>\n<p>Or let new people\u00a0 in<\/p>\n<p>I was muted<\/p>\n<p>Until I met someone<\/p>\n<p>Who taught me the spell to quell them<\/p>\n<p>Not a doctor or science, just loving care<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just be still and listen&#8221; she whispered<\/p>\n<p>A frog hopping out<\/p>\n<p>And then I well,<\/p>\n<p>I told my story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this image and\/ or the line it contains \u201c\u2026just be still, and listen\u201d as a jumping off piece. Full credit goes to\u00a0Shlokla Shankar. I was cursed at a young age with A mouth that spewed fabric whenever I spoke Muffling my words and leaving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100238,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100138\/revisions\/100238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}