{"id":101713,"date":"2021-06-27T06:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101713"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T22:22:04","slug":"the-still-of-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-still-of-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Still of the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 22<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s five am and the birds have started to tweet and call.<\/p>\n<p>Sing softer little Red bird; the sun is still enroute and I am still sleepless.<\/p>\n<p>I succumbed to a moment of stillness dropping my glasses and my phone.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh but the end is drawing nigh! This has been a test of time.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t claim the victory yet, though I can see its crowned head.<\/p>\n<p>I can feel that certain rhythm taking shape as I go.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts had become slow but are now picking up the pace.<\/p>\n<p>My keyboard is suddenly foreign under my touch but I venture on.<\/p>\n<p>Zukey is snoring on the bed behind me and it is music.<\/p>\n<p>Every snort and hiccup I envy that sweet pup.<\/p>\n<p>Let us make plans to dance and join the Cardinal&#8217;s song.<\/p>\n<p>With the sunrise still burning its way up the Eastern edge of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Let us claim victory for the day, for conquering the night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 22 It&#8217;s five am and the birds have started to tweet and call. Sing softer little Red bird; the sun is still enroute and I am still sleepless. I succumbed to a moment of stillness dropping my glasses and my phone. Ahh but the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101713","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104306,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101713\/revisions\/104306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}