{"id":110426,"date":"2022-06-25T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110426"},"modified":"2022-07-17T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T17:32:12","slug":"mistress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/mistress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wine glass tips, falls, and shatters!<br \/>\nIts tinkle matching my laughter tone for tone<br \/>\nMy young fingers playfully<br \/>\ntrace the breadth of your shoulders<br \/>\nThen like coquettes<br \/>\ndo a complete turnaround<br \/>\ndigging viciously<br \/>\nclaiming space<br \/>\nsomeplace<br \/>\nnot theirs&#8230;<br \/>\nand breaking<br \/>\na lacquered nail<br \/>\non your back<br \/>\nThey rise to my lips,<br \/>\nmy fingertips<br \/>\nto stifle a delirious scream<br \/>\nunsuccessfully&#8230;<br \/>\nFor that they were<br \/>\nback then!<br \/>\nUnsuccessful<br \/>\nin holding on to time, to dreams, to you!<br \/>\nHow foolish!<br \/>\nFingers feel, but they do not know<br \/>\nthat nothing is theirs<br \/>\nto hold on to<br \/>\nNot dreams<br \/>\nnor lovers, nor their promises<br \/>\nnor their prime&#8230;<br \/>\nBut with time,<br \/>\nfingers learn<br \/>\nlike mine have learned<br \/>\nthat knitting cheery sunflowers<br \/>\non woollen sweaters are a better bet<br \/>\nfor the warmth I crave!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words used from prompt: Wine glass, nail, space, knitting, sunflowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wine glass tips, falls, and shatters! Its tinkle matching my laughter tone for tone My young fingers playfully trace the breadth of your shoulders Then like coquettes do a complete turnaround digging viciously claiming space someplace not theirs&#8230; and breaking a lacquered nail on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4909,2236],"class_list":["post-110426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-hour5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110426","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124982,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110426\/revisions\/124982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}