{"id":131686,"date":"2023-09-02T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131686"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:27:26","slug":"six-koala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/six-koala\/","title":{"rendered":"Six: Koala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Koala<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Six<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a vastness in the complexity of the galaxy<br \/>\nWhich we may never fully understand<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, not in my lifetime. It is enough, for me here,<br \/>\nTo stand amongst the wildflowers<br \/>\nTheir fullness, heavy on the breeze<br \/>\nPetals softly swimming amongst the dust motes and the honeybees drinking up the light of the universe<br \/>\nHow they dance together, a symphony in simplicity<br \/>\nAnd the softness of the pollen as my fingertips brush patterns into existence<\/p>\n<p>Am I brave enough to dance here, too?<br \/>\nDo I see the way the world moves?<\/p>\n<p>If I stand still, I can feel the earth shift. It\u2019s rhythmic breathing, soft and slow, steady on like heartbeat to the spinning above<br \/>\nWhere feathers dance like angels on the heads of pins<br \/>\nAnd I can smell the eucalyptus in the air<br \/>\nBright and clean<br \/>\nA high note against the darker, musky florals of creation.<br \/>\nAnd if I am brave enough, would I taste the green of such knowledge?<br \/>\nTo be the koala, instead of the world sleeping on his back?<br \/>\nHis gentle acceptance, as that of a summer\u2019s day, unburdened by the onset of the storms,<br \/>\nBrings the birth of new constellations.<br \/>\nAnd this too is his prevue,<br \/>\nFor why, if such knowing is forbidden, would he smile so?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-131669 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903_021627_Chrome-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903_021627_Chrome-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903_021627_Chrome.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koala Six There is a vastness in the complexity of the galaxy Which we may never fully understand Or, at least, not in my lifetime. It is enough, for me here, To stand amongst the wildflowers Their fullness, heavy on the breeze Petals softly swimming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3239,"featured_media":131669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131686","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\/3239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131811,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131686\/revisions\/131811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}