{"id":107836,"date":"2022-06-25T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107836"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:44:53","slug":"prompt-2-between-the-woods-and-frozen-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-2-between-the-woods-and-frozen-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 2: Between the Woods and Frozen Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"mountain<\/p>\n

Between the woods and frozen lake
\na gulf exists where one might take
\na brief respite from travelling onwards
\na chance to breathe, a chance to break<\/p>\n

Between treacherous, ice-covered, unknown depths
\nand thick, dark woods of unknown breadth
\na moment here to gather wits
\nand to choose which path might mean my death<\/p>\n

No space between my hand and rifle
\neach heartbeat, nor each imagined, frightful
\nwould-be end that I might meet
\nwith wolves and icy death as rivals<\/p>\n

And so I chew, and drink, and eat
\nand gather strength; dare not to sleep
\nfor I must move, and choose between
\nliving or dying; triumph, defeat<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Photo by Riccardo Chiarini<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n

Inspired by (and with credit to) Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Between the woods and frozen lake a gulf exists where one might take a brief respite from travelling onwards a chance to breathe, a chance to break Between treacherous, ice-covered, unknown depths and thick, dark woods of unknown breadth a moment here to gather…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107836","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\/4714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108015,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107836\/revisions\/108015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}