{"id":110859,"date":"2022-06-25T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110859"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:12:01","slug":"kitten-hour-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/kitten-hour-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitten, hour six"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know a mother’s love?<\/p>\n

You’re old enough, now, to know it for yourself;<\/p>\n

I once shared your mother with you.<\/p>\n

Some say animals don’t love as people do,<\/p>\n

it’s sometimes true, but I loved you<\/p>\n

far beyond when my kittens were grown and gone,<\/p>\n

when you were three I draped in your lap, purring<\/p>\n

even as knobby knees pushed my ribs,<\/p>\n

and grubby hands grabbed. I loved you,<\/p>\n

as love from a mother can only be;<\/p>\n

without boundaries or limits, or species,<\/p>\n

without expectation of reciprocation,<\/p>\n

knowing my short life would never match yours.<\/p>\n

I would never live to see you fully grown,<\/p>\n

a kitten of your own, but sometimes, sometimes,<\/p>\n

a mother’s love pulls me back from that rainbow bridge<\/p>\n

and I love you only as a mother can, unseen, unfelt<\/p>\n

but purring all the same.<\/p>\n

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Do you know a mother’s love? You’re old enough, now, to know it for yourself; I once shared your mother with you. Some say animals don’t love as people do, it’s sometimes true, but I loved you far beyond when my kittens were grown and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110859","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111004,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110859\/revisions\/111004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}