{"id":126842,"date":"2023-09-02T09:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126842"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:35:01","slug":"poem-for-hour-one-1-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-for-hour-one-1-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Hour One (1\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy revolutions at thirty-thousand feet,<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for news of lives since past,<\/p>\n<p>Catching only whispers of scent through carved bone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Long since considered a monster,<\/p>\n<p>With great, black cloak,<\/p>\n<p>And death reeking upon odd, bald face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ugly thing, sitting like plague across deserts,<\/p>\n<p>Lurking in wait for some unfortunate end,<\/p>\n<p>Poaching the stories from bone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each grim reaper with flesh-tearing intent,<\/p>\n<p>Respects duty and questions not moral optics,<\/p>\n<p>Apprehensive only just at the sight of a carcass, alive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cowards remain ignorant to this stewardship,<\/p>\n<p>Fragile humans quaking under fear of mortality,<\/p>\n<p>Continue cycles of hatred toward things un-understood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The grim reaper rids the growing world of disease,<\/p>\n<p>Finds a thankless welcome for necessary work,<\/p>\n<p>Unbothered: gratitude feeds not the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perfectly suited for orderly profession,<\/p>\n<p>Paving the way for the world to reclaim its carbon,<\/p>\n<p>The Vulture remains unchanging,<\/p>\n<p>Stoic,<\/p>\n<p>and beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy revolutions at thirty-thousand feet, Waiting for news of lives since past, Catching only whispers of scent through carved bone. &nbsp; Long since considered a monster, With great, black cloak, And death reeking upon odd, bald face. &nbsp; Ugly thing, sitting like plague across deserts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126842","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\/5262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127365,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126842\/revisions\/127365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}