{"id":131649,"date":"2023-09-02T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131649"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:18:40","slug":"hour-6-eyes-at-the-edge-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-6-eyes-at-the-edge-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #6: &#8220;Eyes at the Edge of the World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cosmic falls, this distance beyond gravitational bounds<br \/>\nWhere plunging waters dissipate into astral mists<br \/>\nIn the belly of some ancient god, the stars, illustrious, countless,<br \/>\ncast upon the immaterial universe,<br \/>\nlike the scattering remnants of a tremendous explosion.<\/p>\n<p>I am lost, searching for direction,<br \/>\nin an immeasurable plane that cannot<br \/>\nbe quartered with cardinal points,<br \/>\nnor ups with downs, before nor behind.<\/p>\n<p>Into a vision that continually expands<br \/>\nuntil it is swallowed by a greater vantage point,<br \/>\nbeyond what I can see, each realm<br \/>\nenclosed within the other, an ever-growing<br \/>\nmacrocosmic god\u2019s eye view,<br \/>\nany point of reference related to here, this place, now,<br \/>\nis indistinguishable from the opulent enigma that surrounds it.<\/p>\n<p>I am somewhere within nowhere.<br \/>\nWhere seemingly unimportant arms of spiral galaxies,<br \/>\ntwist, churn, fold over illuminated gaseous horizons,<br \/>\nWhere the great star ocean is ever abounding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cosmic falls, this distance beyond gravitational bounds Where plunging waters dissipate into astral mists In the belly of some ancient god, the stars, illustrious, countless, cast upon the immaterial universe, like the scattering remnants of a tremendous explosion. I am lost, searching for direction,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5957,5787],"class_list":["post-131649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-6-2023","tag-2023-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131649","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131674,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131649\/revisions\/131674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}