{"id":127939,"date":"2023-09-02T10:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127939"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:18:04","slug":"prompt-two-my-12-year-old-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-two-my-12-year-old-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Two &#8211; My 12-Year-Old Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt Two \u2013 Text Prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Write a poem from the point of view of yourself, ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>(My poem is 45 years ago, not 10)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>My 12-Year Self<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She jogs beside me, this child so sweet,<\/p>\n<p>I knew her well, a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>We run in synch, on our neighbourhood street,<\/p>\n<p>but share wee smiles as we go.<\/p>\n<p>Does she like me at all, I wonder now?<\/p>\n<p>Her approval seems to matter.<\/p>\n<p>Does she think I\u2019ve done all right?<\/p>\n<p>I wish she\u2019d stop and chatter.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s tough, this kid, will go quite far,<\/p>\n<p>if she\u2019s helped along the way.<\/p>\n<p>How lithe her limbs, how long her stride,<\/p>\n<p>riding, running, playing all day.<\/p>\n<p>I look again, see young dreams shine,<\/p>\n<p>Athletics arenas, gymkhana races.<\/p>\n<p>There it is then, her twelve-year dreams,<\/p>\n<p>writ clear on both our faces.<\/p>\n<p>In the forty-five years that separated us,<\/p>\n<p>life happened in its stead.<\/p>\n<p>Dreams denied, young plans just died,<\/p>\n<p>new ideas settled in her head.<\/p>\n<p>Should I say sorry now, apologise to her,<\/p>\n<p>for not fighting harder for those dreams?<\/p>\n<p>But she looked up then and smiled at me,<\/p>\n<p>I saw acceptance in her beams.<\/p>\n<p>My twelve-year self was ok, thank God,<\/p>\n<p>with what I had made of her own life.<\/p>\n<p>A middle-class woman, now middle aged,<\/p>\n<p>A writer, a mother and a wife!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt Two \u2013 Text Prompt: Write a poem from the point of view of yourself, ten years ago. (My poem is 45 years ago, not 10) &nbsp; My 12-Year Self She jogs beside me, this child so sweet, I knew her well, a long time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,5],"tags":[680,3019],"class_list":["post-127939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127939","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127974,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127939\/revisions\/127974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}