{"id":107594,"date":"2022-06-25T10:38:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107594"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:38:28","slug":"before-i-sleep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/before-i-sleep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBefore I Sleep\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I calm my head and go to bed,<br \/>\nAnd think twice about the line he said;<br \/>\n\u201cAnd miles to go before I sleep\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAnd miles to go before I sleep\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I stared so hard, up naked sky,<br \/>\nAnd think about how would I die.<br \/>\nIn life, I\u2019ve seen some terrible cries,<br \/>\nHard situations, awful people and lies.<br \/>\nI wonder if I\u2019ll just do the same,<br \/>\nOr be the good and kindest at my game.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, I\u2019m no poet as good as his,<br \/>\nI\u2019m no noble person, or philanthropist.<br \/>\nBut I dreamt to write to touch one soul,<br \/>\nAnd read about it, as I get old.<\/p>\n<p>His tragedy and my worst life,<br \/>\nMight be differ by its time.<br \/>\nBut I wish, I wish, to touch one life,<br \/>\nJust like how, he touch mine.<\/p>\n<p>Writer: M.E. Flores<br \/>\nHour02, Text Prompt02<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nGiving honor to Robert\u2019s Frost Phrase \u201cAnd miles to go before I sleep\u201d from his poetry : Stopping by woods in a snowy evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I calm my head and go to bed, And think twice about the line he said; \u201cAnd miles to go before I sleep\u201d \u201cAnd miles to go before I sleep\u201d. I stared so hard, up naked sky, And think about how would I die. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107594","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\/1370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107937,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107594\/revisions\/107937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}