Purple eggs laid on large fern leaves<\/p>\n
Sunlight dapples across their shells<\/p>\n
Tiny wings of gossamer gold<\/p>\n
Emerge just right, just when they\u2019re told<\/p>\n
When the sun is high and the sky is blue<\/p>\n
Little fairies chip through<\/p>\n
Fragile shells of porcelain<\/p>\n
Broken through by dorsal fins<\/p>\n
Into this world of black and white<\/p>\n
They call to me with joyful voices<\/p>\n
Happy to see me they are<\/p>\n
I could never traverse too far<\/p>\n
One, two, three and four<\/p>\n
five, six, seven, eight<\/p>\n
Oh my, two more and we have ten<\/p>\n
Wherever will we put them and when<\/p>\n
Come my children, let us fly<\/p>\n
Through these woods and to the hills<\/p>\n
There you will find the pink unicorns<\/p>\n
I assure you they are quite norm<\/p>\n
We circle, we glide upon a rainbow cloud<\/p>\n
See how the turtle shells glow<\/p>\n
and the robins egg sounds<\/p>\n
Look there and you will see\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our beautiful home, waiting for you and for me<\/p>\n So when next you see upon the ground<\/p>\n Purple spheres with no known name<\/p>\n Place them carefully back upon the stem<\/p>\n So they will come back and stay with you again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Purple eggs laid on large fern leaves Sunlight dapples across their shells Tiny wings of gossamer gold Emerge just right, just when they\u2019re told When the sun is high and the sky is blue Little fairies chip through Fragile shells of porcelain Broken through by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123688","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123689,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123688\/revisions\/123689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}