{"id":107685,"date":"2022-06-25T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107685"},"modified":"2022-06-29T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:00:09","slug":"prompt-two-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-two-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Two &#8211; Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hour Two \u2013 Text Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read Robert Frost\u2019s poem<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/42891\/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening\">\u00a0Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0chose one line or phrase, and with credit, write a poem with that line or phrase in it. Prompt partially contributed by Se Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Musings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life could be easy, airy, light, and breezy<\/p>\n<p>if it were only up to us.<\/p>\n<p>But as I sit and ponder, my mind begins to wonder<\/p>\n<p>at all the nonsense and the fuss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t see the point of stilettoed heels.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t see the need for seven-course meals.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear arms, ammunition farms, wireless-synched alarms!<\/p>\n<p>What is the reason why storms are named each season?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t things be easy? Old-fashioned and breezy?<\/p>\n<p>As we stop and stare at woods dark and deep.<\/p>\n<p>But ah, that\u2019s the grumble, like Robert Frost we crumble.<\/p>\n<p>Because we all, we all have promises to keep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Two \u2013 Text Prompt Read Robert Frost\u2019s poem\u00a0Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,\u00a0\u00a0chose one line or phrase, and with credit, write a poem with that line or phrase in it. Prompt partially contributed by Se Johnson. &nbsp; Musings &nbsp; Life could be easy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107685","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124330,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107685\/revisions\/124330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}