{"id":129284,"date":"2023-09-02T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129284"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:51:43","slug":"129284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/129284\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3- Cows, Ducks, and Starshine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. You are pulling my leg, I might have a cow. I\u2019d get bent out of shape, If I only knew how. <\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. I think my mind is heading towards the moon with the cow! Oh no! I have reached the stars.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Looking around, I see the milky way, I hear the whoosh of a meteor fly by. I nibble the silky strands of starshine, tasting the lingering sweetness of dreams. Closing my eyes, I breathe in deep, the scent of space so clean. Peeking once more, I grin, as the man in the moon smiles at me and I feel his glee so I tickle him.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. The sounds of the universe send blue waves trickling through, tasting of the ocean, the colours true.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Coming back to the Earth, I revel in the blessing that Mother Nature provides.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. You know, maybe I won\u2019t have a cow\u2026.I think it will be a duck. Ducks are more fun and they waddle.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Now that I think about it, ducks do not waddle\u2026they paddle as they swim in the water so maybe I will just be a mermaid.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. To be honest, I know diddlysquat about mermaids, but I can learn!<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. As the mermaid swims, they stir up the currents in the water and create hurricanes! I learned something new, but\u2026.is it true?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Behind me, I hear a four year old screaming \u201cPoo poo! Poo poo!\u201d A six year old replies, and I can hear his eye roll, \u201cThat\u2019s a bad word! What the hell!?\u201d <\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. The logic of children befuddles me.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. I shake my head, and my thoughts scatter through the world like random sparks.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. I giggle and the moon changes colours like a rainbow.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. Dee was amused by it all.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. I shuffle my feet, walking towards the dawn, knowing my words will reach many eyes.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. The gregarious clouds whiffle across the sky, flowing like rice in a bowl.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. With a gentle demeanor I strike out at a rock, kicking it and rolling it with my nose. <\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. Je t\u2019aime!<\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. The rock replies that it loves me too.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  20. The cow and the duck frolic through the milky way, swinging on stars and teasing the moon. I acknowledge my words might be from a mermaids mouth, but I\u2019ll get a reaction real soon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You are pulling my leg, I might have a cow. I\u2019d get bent out of shape, If I only knew how. I think my mind is heading towards the moon with the cow! Oh no! I have reached the stars. Looking around, I see the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129284","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129319,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129284\/revisions\/129319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}