{"id":109075,"date":"2022-06-25T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109075"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:17:30","slug":"a-hill-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-hill-to-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hill To Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trails of stones and rocks on this narrow path steep<\/p>\n<p>Long pathway on up<\/p>\n<p>No rope to hang onto<\/p>\n<p>Dangerously<\/p>\n<p>Water to drink<\/p>\n<p>Low on food<\/p>\n<p>But we will make it through<\/p>\n<p>Many have gone this path years ago<\/p>\n<p>Into the region and mountain tops in Egypt<\/p>\n<p>An old billboard displayed<\/p>\n<p>Mounted on a rock standing side ways<\/p>\n<p>Rocks from ages<\/p>\n<p>Bones of animals like humans smell strongly scented there on the ground<\/p>\n<p>Way up on top of this mountain top<\/p>\n<p>Runs river of water freely<\/p>\n<p>Just to catch some in a cup<\/p>\n<p>Hot climate where the tribes left there mark<\/p>\n<p>Hills we must climb<\/p>\n<p>Sits on top of one another stones together<\/p>\n<p>Still we long for a way to come down and not be afraid to except it when morning comes<\/p>\n<p>A rope line stuck<\/p>\n<p>Cause its so hot you can&#8217;t even stop walking when the sun is scorchy golden yellow<\/p>\n<p>I a child of Moses<\/p>\n<p>With no time to waste here<\/p>\n<p>Lets keep on<\/p>\n<p>Until the end<\/p>\n<p>Compus laddle all covered with dust<\/p>\n<p>Flying horse flies you can see of<\/p>\n<p>Dark black bugs flying all around us<\/p>\n<p>The tale of something dead<\/p>\n<p>Push the nail in<\/p>\n<p>Right before Paul step<\/p>\n<p>The long ways down<\/p>\n<p>Jubilee tribes<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s with us<\/p>\n<p>You see<\/p>\n<p>From the east<\/p>\n<p>Just when the last dove flies over<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trails of stones and rocks on this narrow path steep Long pathway on up No rope to hang onto Dangerously Water to drink Low on food But we will make it through Many have gone this path years ago Into the region and mountain tops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109075","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\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109402,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109075\/revisions\/109402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}