{"id":115984,"date":"2022-06-25T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115984"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:18:15","slug":"broken-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/broken-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the flower blooms<br \/>\nFinds one wild seed that sewn<br \/>\nAmong the elegantly planted and pruned<br \/>\nWas found one thorny stem had grown<\/p>\n<p>Striving on its own<br \/>\nTo grow amidst it all<br \/>\nOne cold night a winter wind had blown<br \/>\nLeaving all but one to take the fall<\/p>\n<p>Standing on its own<br \/>\nHeld strongly by its roots<br \/>\nOne wild stem had grown<br \/>\nTaking the time it took<\/p>\n<p>Even through rough weather<br \/>\nIt has stood the test of time<br \/>\nThough nothing had harmed a pedal<br \/>\nLook closely to see what you will find<\/p>\n<p>The rain brings tears to cry<br \/>\nAs they drop to the ground<br \/>\nFalling not only from the sky<br \/>\nAs you see those are teardrops you&#8217;ve found<\/p>\n<p>Yet you would not find one tear<br \/>\nUnless you came close to see<br \/>\nThough it has found nothing to fear<br \/>\nIt remembers what used to be<\/p>\n<p>After so many seasons passing by<br \/>\nLiving the only life it knows<br \/>\nA hand reaches from behind<br \/>\nThen becoming the broken rose<\/p>\n<p>By gentle hands were it taken away<br \/>\nFor the reasons it were chose<br \/>\nLove was found that day<br \/>\nThrough the life of a broken rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the flower blooms Finds one wild seed that sewn Among the elegantly planted and pruned Was found one thorny stem had grown Striving on its own To grow amidst it all One cold night a winter wind had blown Leaving all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115984","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\/4419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115997,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115984\/revisions\/115997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}