{"id":113208,"date":"2022-06-25T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113208"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:52:10","slug":"hail-rain-and-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hail-rain-and-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail, Rain and Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hail, Rain and Drought<\/p>\n<p>He moved a bit more than before in hour eight,<br \/>\nand the rain soaked the lawn. Now, sun overhead<br \/>\nit left Charlie with a feeling of dread. Wait,<br \/>\nListen, I&#8217;m not quite done. A feeling of dread;<\/p>\n<p>roughly made bed or one just used for fun.<br \/>\nAnother cold night you will never see,<br \/>\nif hope springs eternal the deed will be done.<br \/>\nNever worry Charlie, I&#8217;ve just got to be me<\/p>\n<p>And you just got to be you. If the heel<br \/>\nnow fits the shoe, follow the bread crumb<br \/>\ndotted trail. What perils remain to test his steel?<br \/>\nDropped in the poor box but priceless to some.<\/p>\n<p>Rutted. Charlie fights and digs his burrow, a shady<br \/>\noutcrop tract of earth and molted clay.<br \/>\nUnder the oak tree leaf roof, Charlie bravely<br \/>\ngoes through the motions and gets through the day.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on! Wait! What do I see? What are those things?<br \/>\nThe nymph becomes a fly? Have you sprouted wings?<\/p>\n<p>Hour eight, 4pm<br \/>\nHail, Rain and Drought<br \/>\n(form Acrostic\/ Heroic Sonnet)<br \/>\nCharlie the Mayfly.<\/p>\n<p>v.j.calone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hail, Rain and Drought He moved a bit more than before in hour eight, and the rain soaked the lawn. Now, sun overhead it left Charlie with a feeling of dread. Wait, Listen, I&#8217;m not quite done. A feeling of dread; roughly made bed or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113208","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\/4646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113213,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113208\/revisions\/113213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}