Hour 4<\/p>\n
9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n
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“What Makes Us?…”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Momma!”<\/p>\n “Look!”<\/p>\n pretty, pretty… “pretty…”<\/p>\n And the lil fingers grasp and pull,<\/p>\n grasp and pull…<\/p>\n legs RUN to other visions<\/p>\n of pretty, pretty…<\/p>\n lil fingers, stained with green,<\/p>\n stained with smiles<\/p>\n stained with pretty, pretties…<\/p>\n lil hands complete,<\/p>\n lil mind FULL<\/p>\n run, run, RUN!<\/p>\n “Mommy!”<\/p>\n “MOMMY!\u00a0 HERE!!”<\/p>\n Reach, open her fingers.\u00a0 Place the ‘treasure’!<\/p>\n Beam so hard, so clear.<\/p>\n Move away – MORE treasures to give …share!…<\/p>\n Pause …stare…<\/p>\n …mommy threw them in the trash…<\/p>\n …mommy threw them away…<\/p>\n …OH…oh…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So many, many “echoes”<\/p>\n behind our eyes…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris<\/p>\n (C) Chris Twyford 9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 4 9\/2\/2023 “What Makes Us?…” “Momma!” “Look!” pretty, pretty… “pretty…” And the lil fingers grasp and pull, grasp and pull… legs RUN to other visions of pretty, pretty… lil fingers, stained with green, stained with smiles stained with pretty, pretties… lil hands…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5880,5735,10,1084],"class_list":["post-129211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023-hour-4","tag-chris","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129211","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\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129665,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129211\/revisions\/129665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}