I have raised far more than razed, the dead
\nAt night they call and I must heed, the deep<\/p>\n
Necromantic dread. For none who lived and
\nRecall the life which brought them sorrow
\nAre content with ash and soil, threatened<\/p>\n
By the afterlife\u2019s turmoil. And so they come
\nIn heaves and droves, to the necromancer<\/p>\n
My name unshared, their prayers unanswered
\nI did not ask to be their hope, salvation under<\/p>\n
Duress. I\u2019m still unskilled yet hopeful for
\nI have raised far more than razed the dead<\/p>\n
By the afterlife\u2019s turmoil, and so they come
\nUndaunted, the deep the dark the dead they
\nRise like forgotten wounds, scars afraid of<\/p>\n
Nothing, yet everything, new recruits to the
\nSkeleton War, deserting their posts for mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have raised far more than razed, the dead At night they call and I must heed, the deep Necromantic dread. For none who lived and Recall the life which brought them sorrow Are content with ash and soil, threatened By the afterlife\u2019s turmoil. And…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5066,5169,5010,51,5170,5172,5171,15,228,10,355,4967,5173,1084],"class_list":["post-113033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022-full-marathon","tag-2022-hour-8","tag-2022-marathon","tag-death","tag-necromancer","tag-necromancy","tag-necrox","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetry-marathon-2022","tag-undead","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113033","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113067,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113033\/revisions\/113067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}