{"id":101459,"date":"2021-06-27T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101459"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:22:23","slug":"water-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/water-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water Water<br \/>\na haiku sequence<\/p>\n<p>stormy weather<br \/>\nfor the first day of summer<br \/>\nperhaps a bad omen<\/p>\n<p>rain pelts gardens<br \/>\ntender annuals just planted<br \/>\nfloat in rivulets<\/p>\n<p>I quell maternal instincts<br \/>\nfor fledglings fighting<br \/>\nfor a chance to bloom<\/p>\n<p>lightning strikes a tree<br \/>\non the next block, a sizzle<br \/>\nthe power goes out<\/p>\n<p>hum rain rain go away<br \/>\ndoes nothing to ease<br \/>\nmy ire or the downpour<\/p>\n<p>thunder rumbles once<br \/>\nrain stops, a peek of sun<br \/>\nparts empty clouds<\/p>\n<p>lights blink on off on<br \/>\nstep out in tall boots<br \/>\nsurvey the damage done<\/p>\n<p>I pat mud down around<br \/>\nplant stems, hope they will<br \/>\nsurvive their drenching<\/p>\n<p>sun radiates full power<br \/>\nbeds soak up water<br \/>\nthe day turns steamy<\/p>\n<p>weather forecasts<br \/>\nhigh heat all week \u2013 sigh<br \/>\nI\u2019ll have to water the garden<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 27, 2021 Hour 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Water a haiku sequence stormy weather for the first day of summer perhaps a bad omen rain pelts gardens tender annuals just planted float in rivulets I quell maternal instincts for fledglings fighting for a chance to bloom lightning strikes a tree on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101460,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459\/revisions\/101460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}