{"id":128538,"date":"2023-09-02T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128538"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:06:27","slug":"hour-3-form-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-3-form-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 3 &#8212; form poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death is a fallow field<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">memory what grows there, thin and fragile-stalked<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">fragrant as basil<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a cacophony of birds<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can taste their songs<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">honey on the tongue<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glen told me once<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">perhaps on a boat floating down<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">an ancient river \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 one of so many<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">we rode together<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">that death was a killing field<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing grows there, he said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But I have seen the leaves sway<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">beneath the Lahaina banyan<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">and maybe it will live<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perhaps the fire ignited<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a phoenix heart<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">nestled among a thousand trunks<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the igneous gold of survival<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">where fire becomes wings<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I can fly to you<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">on bright feathers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Britt, you told me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am leaving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome death for me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">it is my friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Non, <\/em>I answer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Le mort n\u2019est pas notre ami.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The banyan tree nods<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">its many naked, seared heads<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the fallow field of death<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">is lightly furred with green<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is a fallow field memory what grows there, thin and fragile-stalked fragrant as basil a cacophony of birds I can taste their songs honey on the tongue Glen told me once perhaps on a boat floating down an ancient river \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 one of so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128538","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130574,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128538\/revisions\/130574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}