{"id":110754,"date":"2022-06-25T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110754"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:54:19","slug":"hour-five-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-five-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to be truly free<\/span><\/p>\n

Retreating into reverie<\/span><\/p>\n

Or visiting a favorite memory<\/span><\/p>\n

Some place far away from here<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I find myself under the willow tree<\/span><\/p>\n

That lived across the street<\/span><\/p>\n

Laying in the grass, the wind dancing across my face<\/span><\/p>\n

Staring at the sky as the clouds drift by<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Or atop a cliff overlooking the sea<\/span><\/p>\n

Waves crashing down below me<\/span><\/p>\n

A place I\u2019ve never actually laid<\/span><\/p>\n

Though I can feel it so vividly<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My mind conjures up his face<\/span><\/p>\n

The freckles across his cheeks<\/span><\/p>\n

The shining blue of his eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

His laugh a familiar sound<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I see myself in fields of green<\/span><\/p>\n

Dipping my hands into a stream<\/span><\/p>\n

Ambling atop rocks and discovering things<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Irish countryside<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Or sometimes I think what it would be like<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a neighborhood cat<\/span><\/p>\n

Roaming free to follow my instincts<\/span><\/p>\n

With no one to control me<\/span><\/p>\n

Other times I can be found<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing among the notes of my favorite song<\/span><\/p>\n

The beats swirling around me like a ribbon<\/span><\/p>\n

Colors moving through me<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

I want to know what it\u2019s like to live inside a rainbow<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe it is happier in there<\/span><\/p>\n

The colors might be brighter<\/span><\/p>\n

Filled with a little more hope<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

And how does it feel to return to \u201creal life\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

By comparison a duller place<\/span><\/p>\n

A bit like falling from grace<\/span><\/p>\n

Tethered to this physical place<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

And so I\u2019ll continue to journey<\/span><\/p>\n

To places I have and haven\u2019t been<\/span><\/p>\n

For these psychic jaunts are what keep me here<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s called balance, my dear<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to be truly free Retreating into reverie Or visiting a favorite memory Some place far away from here   I find myself under the willow tree That lived across the street Laying in the grass, the wind dancing across my face…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110754","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\/2288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110761,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110754\/revisions\/110761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}