{"id":129101,"date":"2023-09-02T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129101"},"modified":"2023-09-04T11:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:41:29","slug":"twentylittlepoems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/twentylittlepoems\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Little Poems (3 hour)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The prompt is not a gift nor a lift<\/p>\n<p>Which it was and I would have floated a drift<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If it were so, I would spread my wings and move like a fly<\/p>\n<p>Kiss the moon and return to the Earth on a fly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbit came cannot arrest the din<\/p>\n<p>Nor was the giraffe tall enough<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My legs could not see where my eyes had been<\/p>\n<p>Pity, my tongue cannot taste the joy of reading<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel got the direction to his parent&#8217;s church on Church Street<\/p>\n<p>For whatever it is worth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aha, never possible to fly like a fly or kiss the moon<\/p>\n<p>not with a long spoon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to survive<\/p>\n<p>Life is not a 9 to five<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dundun dance at the funeral of a chief without legs<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how but it did anyway<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Loaf left in a bucket of water gets soaked<\/p>\n<p>Like a fish out of water, dead<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Omo, la ju e<\/p>\n<p>It is a street talk to survival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt is not a gift nor a lift Which it was and I would have floated a drift &nbsp; If it were so, I would spread my wings and move like a fly Kiss the moon and return to the Earth on a fly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129101","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\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144708,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129101\/revisions\/144708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}