{"id":129119,"date":"2023-09-02T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129119"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:39:58","slug":"5am-poem-3-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/5am-poem-3-help\/","title":{"rendered":"5am Poem 3. Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

5am poem 3<\/span><\/p>\n

Help<\/span><\/p>\n

Fire. Storm. Firestorm.<\/span>
\nCould we not have called<\/span>
\nMayor Mike back to assist?<\/span>
\nRumble smash smoke sting<\/span>
\nmelting… melting…<\/span>
\nLahainatown.<\/span>
\nWe could not have called<\/span>
\nMayor Mike back to assist.<\/span>
\nI wrote him several messages.<\/span>
\nDeleted them all before sending.<\/span>
\nPilau to even ask.<\/span>
\nWhere there’s smoke <\/span>
\nthere’s not always fire.<\/span>
\nSound the alarms just in case.<\/span>
\nPilau to even ask.<\/span>
\nDon’t send the message.<\/span>
\nDon’t wait to ask.<\/span>
\nIt’s the rude beg of truth<\/span>
\nthe black sky of truthfulness<\/span>
\nthe cover of black sky.<\/span>
\nMayor Mike could have volunteered<\/span>
\nmaybe could have remembered<\/span>
\nLahainaluna<\/span>
\nMs. Fellows’ students.<\/span>
\nMaybe not.<\/span>
\nPilau to ask.<\/span>
\nHe’ll make a statement <\/span>
\nwhen the shock wears down.<\/span>
\nWe’re all frantic healing.<\/span>
\nI’ll send one of those messages someday any day now.<\/span>
\nMmmm… malama pono.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashes call to him <\/span>
\nfar louder than any words of mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fire. Storm. Firestorm.<\/span><\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5am poem 3 Help Fire. Storm. Firestorm. Could we not have called Mayor Mike back to assist? Rumble smash smoke sting melting… melting… Lahainatown. We could not have called Mayor Mike back to assist. I wrote him several messages. Deleted them all before sending. Pilau…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129119","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129131,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129119\/revisions\/129131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}