{"id":130651,"date":"2023-09-02T13:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130651"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:17:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:17:38","slug":"hour-5-a-chilled-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-5-a-chilled-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; A Chilled Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movement in the corner of the eye,<\/p>\n<p>Noise in the dark<\/p>\n<p>A lost glove<\/p>\n<p>A cold wind blew and the door closed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today footprints in the snow<\/p>\n<p>Curtains flutter in the empty house,<\/p>\n<p>A small stain on the carpet,<\/p>\n<p>Ice cream melted on the kitchen floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A melody indistinguishable from the howling wind,<\/p>\n<p>A whisper in the walls<\/p>\n<p>A garden walk<\/p>\n<p>Soft on frozen snow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sweating even though it&#8217;s cold<\/p>\n<p>A faint star in the night sky<\/p>\n<p>Distant voices in the dark<\/p>\n<p>A shadow of a man wandering on an empty street<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rose petals on the doormat<\/p>\n<p>Dust in the air<\/p>\n<p>A flickering candle<\/p>\n<p>Just a ghost lurking in the house<\/p>\n<p>Just a lonely soul that can&#8217;t let go<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until it is forgotten<\/p>\n<p>Like all the lost gloves<\/p>\n<p>And footprints<\/p>\n<p>And stars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like all the characters in the misty winter night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movement in the corner of the eye, Noise in the dark A lost glove A cold wind blew and the door closed &nbsp; Today footprints in the snow Curtains flutter in the empty house, A small stain on the carpet, Ice cream melted on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130651","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\/4027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130719,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130651\/revisions\/130719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}