{"id":116001,"date":"2022-06-25T20:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116001"},"modified":"2022-06-28T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:27:12","slug":"prompt-twelve-last-poem-for-me-in-the-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-twelve-last-poem-for-me-in-the-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Twelve (last poem for me in the half marathon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>a gathering of poets<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>around a drum,<br \/>\nthe room filled with inspiration,<br \/>\nwe gather to share our words. the long haul of<br \/>\ncovid slowly behind us, some still donning masks,<br \/>\nwe hear the rustle of paper, the shuffle of feet,<br \/>\nand a chorus of snapping fingers when the<br \/>\nlines are done. Nodding heads and contemplative<br \/>\nmurmurs at the turn of a phrase, the twist of a<br \/>\nrhyme, and the toe-tapping beat of the metre. How<br \/>\nwe missed this sustenance over the past two years,<br \/>\nthe heartbeat of metaphors, the pop-off-the page<br \/>\nimagery that brings us right into the poet\u2019s mind,<br \/>\nand how a simple word, can pull a broken world back<br \/>\ntogether.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>(This poem was inspired by both the picture and the word prompt.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a gathering of poets around a drum, the room filled with inspiration, we gather to share our words. the long haul of covid slowly behind us, some still donning masks, we hear the rustle of paper, the shuffle of feet, and a chorus of snapping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116001","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124181,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116001\/revisions\/124181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}