{"id":120777,"date":"2022-06-26T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120777"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:08:33","slug":"faded-peacocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/faded-peacocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Faded Peacocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 10<\/p>\n<p><em>(Personify an animal. Switch its trait.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life somehow drags on<\/p>\n<p>The colours have all gone<\/p>\n<p>The wind strings music grim<\/p>\n<p>The rain would not kiss him<\/p>\n<p>A flower&#8217;s simply a flower<\/p>\n<p>Not a dame in fading hour<\/p>\n<p>Moonbeams don&#8217;t wish him &#8216;night<\/p>\n<p>Ripples not a silvery white<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, too a drop of milk<\/p>\n<p>Clad in inky shameless silk<\/p>\n<p>Stars which were sapphire<\/p>\n<p>Of twinkling flickering desire<\/p>\n<p>Amber eyes, turn pasty lime<\/p>\n<p>Fluttering to the watery chime<\/p>\n<p>The hourglass, the ticking time<\/p>\n<p>I am a peacock past its prime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 10 (Personify an animal. Switch its trait.) &nbsp; Life somehow drags on The colours have all gone The wind strings music grim The rain would not kiss him A flower&#8217;s simply a flower Not a dame in fading hour Moonbeams don&#8217;t wish him &#8216;night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777","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\/1596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146860,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777\/revisions\/146860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}