{"id":117308,"date":"2022-06-25T22:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117308"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:38:33","slug":"smoky-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/smoky-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jagged beauties! The art of earth and stars made real!
\nMolten crust breathed into sandy caves cools with infinite adagio.<\/p>\n

Slow and silent. Motionless, if you please, deep beneath the roots
\nof fungi, trees, and dinosaurs, molecules align like soldiers on a quest
\nfor perfection. Aligned in time, bound by space and movement unseen.<\/p>\n

Beautiful smoke of the earth holding fire, occult and primordial,
\nthe greatest of antiquities to admire in our brief flash of life.<\/p>\n

Smoke of creation, carbon pure, breath of life radiates from your points.
\nElectrons fly, and back again in timeless synchronicity.<\/p>\n

Yet, you are still and poised, reflecting sunlight through smooth facets
\nof jagged beauty! The art of earth and stars made real!<\/p>\n

Beautiful smoke of the earth holding fire, occult and primordial
\nI have witnessed from that place without age, glimpsed as you grew
\ninto pointing this way and that, rainbows from a pure world of love alone,<\/p>\n

Hear the whispers of your astral guides \u2013 their destinies, like ours
\nhurtling through space wrapped in time\u2019s back and forth agenda.\"two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jagged beauties! The art of earth and stars made real! Molten crust breathed into sandy caves cools with infinite adagio. Slow and silent. Motionless, if you please, deep beneath the roots of fungi, trees, and dinosaurs, molecules align like soldiers on a quest for perfection….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[36,2135,17],"class_list":["post-117308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-earth","tag-elements","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117308","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117454,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117308\/revisions\/117454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}