{"id":129759,"date":"2023-09-02T12:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129759"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:47:57","slug":"musings-on-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/musings-on-light\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 4: musings on light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>musings on light<\/em><\/p>\n<p>how could they know?<\/p>\n<p>this glimpse into the heart of us-<\/p>\n<p>a window to the places warmer<\/p>\n<p>than who you are to me now,<\/p>\n<p>in the chapel of our discontent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>your discontent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>my in ability to be what you needed me to be<\/p>\n<p>for you to be who you could never be<\/p>\n<p>so we could agree on nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>all these glowing meditations on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>maybe on light but nothing else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>chokes me with splinters<\/p>\n<p>where words once breathed<\/p>\n<p>and smelled of winter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(C) r. l. elke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bruce-barrow-5NlhK5Yr3-4-unsplash-683x1024.jpg\" width=\"362\" height=\"543\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>musings on light how could they know? this glimpse into the heart of us- a window to the places warmer than who you are to me now, in the chapel of our discontent&#8230; your discontent&#8230; my in ability to be what you needed me to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129759","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131222,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129759\/revisions\/131222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}