{"id":108638,"date":"2022-06-25T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108638"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:14:19","slug":"emulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/emulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Emulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

He stands tall above the other\u2026<\/p>\n

houseplants\u2026?<\/p>\n

Dracaena<\/p>\n

A dragon tree, crowned and elegant,
\nloosing fronds in every direction,
\nthree headed and authoritative.<\/p>\n

The tinge of red among the strobe of green growth
\ncatches my eye,
\nearns my admiration,
\ndirects my contemplation.<\/p>\n

I try to reign in that elegance, learn a lesson
\nfrom this life I oversee<\/p>\n

I have the same power within me,
\nwe all do,
\ndon\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

But the same tree I admire,
\nthat which I strive to emulate
\nis not without his own weaknesses. <\/p>\n

A particularly bright day,
\nor
\nan extra day gone by without a drink of water,
\nor
\na gnat come to rest in his roots,<\/p>\n

and my beautiful tree shows his weaknesses.
\nA vibrant frond begins to crinkle,
\nmaybe even fall,
\nand I am reminded\u2014<\/p>\n

We have his power,
\nwe share his weakness,
\nwe are all endlessly altering.<\/p>\n

I wonder which iteration will show through tomorrow.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

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He stands tall above the other\u2026 houseplants\u2026? Dracaena A dragon tree, crowned and elegant, loosing fronds in every direction, three headed and authoritative. The tinge of red among the strobe of green growth catches my eye, earns my admiration, directs my contemplation. I try to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108638","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108723,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108638\/revisions\/108723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}