{"id":130047,"date":"2023-09-02T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130047"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:31:00","slug":"prompt-four-i-just-want-to-be-your-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-four-i-just-want-to-be-your-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Four &#8211; I just want to be your Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Anne Smith suggested this subject for a prompt we do every year. Your challenge is to write a poem about the topic of marriage, without ever using the word marriage, and while also ideally avoiding the words spouse, husband, and wife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>I just want to be your Priority<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>Call me your darling, call me your baby,<\/p>\n<p>Shona, pet, or Habibi.<\/p>\n<p>Soulmate even, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be your priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Violent wars on the telly<\/p>\n<p>Politics and pollution in London and Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Through the good, the bad and the smelly<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be your priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Builders, gardeners, plumbers, all<\/p>\n<p>Doctors, dentists, solicitors call<\/p>\n<p>Taxes rise and pensions fall.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be your priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>River cruises and weekend walks<\/p>\n<p>Holiday food which tastes like chalk<\/p>\n<p>without all our easy nonstop talks.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be your priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Endless cups of Darjeeling tea,<\/p>\n<p>Trapped in timeless tranquillity.<\/p>\n<p>Lives crystal clear yet dustymisty.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be your priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text prompt: Nancy Anne Smith suggested this subject for a prompt we do every year. Your challenge is to write a poem about the topic of marriage, without ever using the word marriage, and while also ideally avoiding the words spouse, husband, and wife. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[680,3019],"class_list":["post-130047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130047","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130072,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130047\/revisions\/130072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}