{"id":110043,"date":"2022-06-25T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110043"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:01:53","slug":"hour-5-ba-da-da-dah-dah-dah-dah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-5-ba-da-da-dah-dah-dah-dah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #5 \/ Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got my hardback novel &#8216;neath this old oak tree.<\/p>\n<p>A sunflower springs up behind me,<\/p>\n<p>feeling groovy.<\/p>\n<p>So I sing to myself<\/p>\n<p>over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Groovy, recapturing youth.<\/p>\n<p>Groovy, slowing down in the midst of great change.<\/p>\n<p>Groovy, delighting in the life we&#8217;ve been knitting from<\/p>\n<p>improvisation and heartache.<\/p>\n<p>Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Yet the words no longer rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>We look for our sunshine silhouettes<\/p>\n<p>on the pavement<\/p>\n<p>making us taller and bigger and better, just as we want to be.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, we know such fancy and hope no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet innocence does not return<\/p>\n<p>as we gather treasures in<\/p>\n<p>a satchel,<\/p>\n<p>a cigar box,<\/p>\n<p>a childhood lunch box.<\/p>\n<p>Such carefree memories we will whisk away and<\/p>\n<p>shut forever with this nail of time and<\/p>\n<p>cruelty which has wizened us.<\/p>\n<p>We try to sing, but the words won&#8217;t complete.<\/p>\n<p>Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Ba da-da dah dah dah dah . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>The song will not complete,<\/p>\n<p>so we make space for silence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got my hardback novel &#8216;neath this old oak tree. A sunflower springs up behind me, feeling groovy. So I sing to myself over and over. Groovy, recapturing youth. Groovy, slowing down in the midst of great change. Groovy, delighting in the life we&#8217;ve been knitting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110043","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110301,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110043\/revisions\/110301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}