{"id":132447,"date":"2023-09-02T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132447"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:40:46","slug":"hour-7-sunflower-and-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-sunflower-and-swings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7 \u2014Sunflower and Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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childhood among the sunflowers<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf3b<\/p>\n

suburban sunflowers bow<\/p>\n

to whimsical wooden swings<\/p>\n

bees fly<\/p>\n

summer breeze<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/p>\n

(Sunflowers and wooden swings are precious and meaningful to me, my father built me a wooden swing that I spent hours going back and forth pretending I was on a cruise ships with dreams of traveling the world \u00a0I grew up, the rope faded and frayed \u00a0I was never really a good traveller \u00a0so the summer world travels remain in my childhood memories<\/p>\n

now sunflowers are a very prominent presence in the present \u00a0one year a wild sunflower bush emerged from under the bird feeder \u00a0apparently it spread its seeds \u00a0the next year the sunflowers multiplied to fourteen \u00a0this year there are multiples I call them my suburban sunflowers \u00a0we leave them up way past their prime for the bumble bees \ud83d\udc1d and birds)<\/p>\n

the three pictures I added were taken by me this summer \u00a0I zoomed in \u00a0I wasn\u2019t brave enough to stand that close \u00a0notice all of the pollen on his belly \u00a0I was informed he is a Mason bee, they are very efficient because they grab pollen everywhere whereas other bees just grab pollen on their legs)<\/p>\n

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childhood among the sunflowers \ud83c\udf3b suburban sunflowers bow to whimsical wooden swings bees fly summer breeze     Note: (Sunflowers and wooden swings are precious and meaningful to me, my father built me a wooden swing that I spent hours going back and forth pretending…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441,5],"tags":[6004,6006,5998],"class_list":["post-132447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-kindahaiku","tag-masonbee-pollenallover-suburbansunflowers","tag-swings-sunflowers-haiku-childhood-memories-present-beauty-bees-birds-hour-7-overhalfwaythere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132447","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\/4308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132891,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132447\/revisions\/132891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}