{"id":127524,"date":"2023-09-02T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127524"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:39:06","slug":"24-hour-marathon-poem-2-a-tribute-to-emily-dickenson-the-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/24-hour-marathon-poem-2-a-tribute-to-emily-dickenson-the-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Marathon Hour 2: A Tribute to Emily Dickenson &#8220;The Puzzle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where is my heart<br \/>\nscattered over the territory<br \/>\nleft outside of me<br \/>\nresting, agitated, awaiting decree<\/p>\n<p>I shall attempt to define<br \/>\neach piece<br \/>\nbefore I reach a conclusion<br \/>\nof totality&#8217;s transfusion<\/p>\n<p>I could take steps<br \/>\nfrom my feet of pain<br \/>\nto embrace a life that stands<br \/>\nbearing my tight, cold hands<\/p>\n<p>Assuming agony is hot<br \/>\nthen my chilled emotions<br \/>\ncould anchor one&#8217;s fear<br \/>\nchanging lacerations to scarless cheer<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing my own tears<br \/>\nas I rise to the surface<br \/>\nsafe from drowning sorrow<br \/>\n&#8230; There is faith to borrow<\/p>\n<p>Will yesterday&#8217;s wine<br \/>\ngive me courage<br \/>\nor is the intoxicant a guise<br \/>\nto my own demise<\/p>\n<p>Before my put-together heart<br \/>\ncan be heard elsewhere<br \/>\ncommemorating my trail<br \/>\npathing my passion to avail<\/p>\n<p>Must I enter another world<br \/>\nhateless&#8230;<br \/>\na home for gentler words<br \/>\ncrickets and window-sill birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is my heart scattered over the territory left outside of me resting, agitated, awaiting decree I shall attempt to define each piece before I reach a conclusion of totality&#8217;s transfusion I could take steps from my feet of pain to embrace a life that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127524","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\/3095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131976,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127524\/revisions\/131976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}