{"id":129495,"date":"2023-09-02T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129495"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:25:15","slug":"time-thief-prompt-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/time-thief-prompt-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Thief &#8211; Prompt Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Time is a thief.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I plan to buy back time at my ending.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;text-align: center\">I can smell the lack of time left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129696 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5827-300x186.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5827-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5827-1024x636.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5827-768x477.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5827.jpeg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>(<a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\">amazon.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In the far lands,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I hear the ticking<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">of life\u2019s time clock.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129692 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5830-300x183.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5830-300x183.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5830-768x467.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5830.jpeg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Yet, I can not taste<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">that inevitable<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">drip of time melting away.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129695 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5828-290x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5828-290x300.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5828-991x1024.jpeg 991w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5828-768x794.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5828.jpeg 1139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Let me hold you time<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Allow me to caress your strands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and wrap them \u2018round me tightly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129690\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5831-237x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5831-237x300.jpeg 237w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5831.jpeg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am blind,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I can not hear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">the striking of the clock bells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129693\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5829-300x286.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5829-300x286.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5829-1024x977.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5829-768x733.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5829.jpeg 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\nInto a whirlwind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I ride to find my son, Cody<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In Cody, Wyoming in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is a thief.\u00a0 I plan to buy back time at my ending.\u00a0 I can smell the lack of time left. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (amazon.com) In the far lands,\u00a0 I hear the ticking\u00a0 of life\u2019s time clock. Yet, I can not taste\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129495","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129985,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129495\/revisions\/129985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}