{"id":131877,"date":"2023-09-02T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131877"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:33:10","slug":"6-the-end-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/6-the-end-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"#6 The End of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The End of the Earth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I follow the multi-colored arch<\/p>\n<p>Spanning from one horizon to the other.<\/p>\n<p>To the east, a church spire stands<\/p>\n<p>Silhouetted against the end of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>The cross atop the spire directs my path.<\/p>\n<p>I draw near to find a cemetery behind the church.<\/p>\n<p>And there, the earth ends.<\/p>\n<p>Life on earth ends.<\/p>\n<p>The sun\u2019s aura lights the space<\/p>\n<p>And I see eternity.<\/p>\n<p>I am blinded by the streets of gold,<\/p>\n<p>Calmed by the songs of the birds,<\/p>\n<p>Beckoned by an outstretched hand.<\/p>\n<p>Everything behind me seems trivial.<\/p>\n<p>Then I hear His voice say,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End of the Earth &nbsp; I follow the multi-colored arch Spanning from one horizon to the other. To the east, a church spire stands Silhouetted against the end of the earth. The cross atop the spire directs my path. I draw near to find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131877","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131910,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131877\/revisions\/131910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}