{"id":12882,"date":"2015-06-14T03:03:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12882"},"modified":"2015-06-14T03:03:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:03:35","slug":"phantom-sestina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/phantom-sestina\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom  (sestina)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"body\">It&#8217;s late and hard to Sustain<br \/>\nHis brain sings the same Refrain<br \/>\nLife was not planned Judicious<br \/>\nTrying to stay living is ludicrous<br \/>\nDeep in the night lives Phantom<br \/>\nHe strikes song his only AnthemThe song he sang as Anthem<br \/>\nCarried his heart to Sustain<br \/>\nHe knew sometimes it was ludicrous<br \/>\nHe just wanted to be Judicious<br \/>\nHe sang loud his odd Refrain<br \/>\nThat spirited lost song filled PhantomA lone sad and songful Phantom<br \/>\nBelting in hallways his glorious Anthem<br \/>\nCarried his melody hard to Sustain<br \/>\nHis witnesses laughed it was ludicrous<br \/>\nHis pointed song was forever Judicious<br \/>\nSinging his lonely night time Refrain<\/p>\n<p>The song was a drifting Refrain<br \/>\nSung by the lonely lost Phantom<br \/>\nIn haunted halls singing his Anthem<br \/>\nTo keep his presence he must Sustain<br \/>\nHis whole routine seemed almost ludicrous<br \/>\nBut his heart knew twas Judicious<\/p>\n<p>Carrying her memory was always Judicious<br \/>\nHe sang her name each Refrain<br \/>\nProving his love had to Sustain<br \/>\nShe would love him through Anthem<br \/>\nThat lonely sad singing Phantom<br \/>\nWhose whole dark\u00a0existence seemed ludicrous<\/p>\n<p>The ghost hunters thought it ludicrous<br \/>\nTo help him kept them Judicious<br \/>\nThey heard his lost sad Refrain<br \/>\nSang by the broken hearted Phantom<br \/>\nSinging his lost love&#8217;s sad\u00a0Anthem<br \/>\nThe sound his love could Sustain<\/p>\n<p>Try to Sustain\u00a0Tho is\u00a0ludicrous<br \/>\nHis sad Refrain\u00a0His love Judicious<br \/>\nLonely lost Phantom Singing her Anthem<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s late and hard to Sustain His brain sings the same Refrain Life was not planned Judicious Trying to stay living is ludicrous Deep in the night lives Phantom He strikes song his only AnthemThe song he sang as Anthem Carried his heart to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12921,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions\/12921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}