{"id":128492,"date":"2023-09-02T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128492"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:58:42","slug":"hour-2-the-sad-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-2-the-sad-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #2: &#8220;The Sad Ladder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sad ladder I climb, quietly visible<br \/>\non glinting walls, a vast canvased possibility,<br \/>\nthe unstained imagination.<\/p>\n<p>How alluring the mystery before words,<br \/>\nthe images birthed in the fires of my soul.<\/p>\n<p>How to paint them with the smudges<br \/>\nof calloused fingers. To bring color from inside,<br \/>\nto darken the boundaries set outside.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is better never to touch the rungs<br \/>\nbut to stay in the eternal hint of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>All my gifts will merely clutter this serene<br \/>\nclairvoyance that beckons the best of my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is better to stand apart forever,<br \/>\nlisten to the call, watch as my thoughts arise and fall,<br \/>\ncontort, and reform.<\/p>\n<p>There are no steps reaching high enough<br \/>\nto see over this seething storm,<br \/>\nunless I never bless its form<br \/>\nbeyond the waves of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Handles retreating, disintegrating, impure.<br \/>\nJust the vast, blank world, a colorless universe<br \/>\nthat contains all we could ever create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sad ladder I climb, quietly visible on glinting walls, a vast canvased possibility, the unstained imagination. How alluring the mystery before words, the images birthed in the fires of my soul. How to paint them with the smudges of calloused fingers. To bring color&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5842,5787],"class_list":["post-128492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-2-2023","tag-2023-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128492","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128578,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128492\/revisions\/128578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}