{"id":132427,"date":"2023-09-02T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132427"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:19:12","slug":"a-poem-speaks-poem-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-poem-speaks-poem-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem speaks &#8211; poem seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a poem speaks<\/p>\n<p>It paints me as angry,<\/p>\n<p>As something worth feeling,<\/p>\n<p>Chases me into the parted lips of noon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My name etched in stone<\/p>\n<p>When a poem speaks<\/p>\n<p>The prophetic tongue,<\/p>\n<p>Sands heavy with infinite footprints<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Memories up and alive again,<\/p>\n<p>Shadows lurking in the corners,<\/p>\n<p>When a poem speaks<\/p>\n<p>My tongue unfurls like a carpet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am more than the clouds can contain,<\/p>\n<p>The loose petals turn to flying insects,<\/p>\n<p>Ants vomit sugar and recede<\/p>\n<p>When a poem speaks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a poem speaks It paints me as angry, As something worth feeling, Chases me into the parted lips of noon &nbsp; My name etched in stone When a poem speaks The prophetic tongue, Sands heavy with infinite footprints &nbsp; Memories up and alive again,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132427","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\/4963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132427\/revisions\/132572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}