{"id":133283,"date":"2023-09-02T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133283"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:33:57","slug":"for-dad-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/for-dad-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"For Dad (Hour 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I rub the place between my eyes<br \/>\nThe pain from simply feeling<\/p>\n<p>I step outside to view the skies<br \/>\nA hawk, it soothes my healing<\/p>\n<p>I look for you in every cloud<br \/>\nYou rarely let me down<\/p>\n<p>I wish I\u2019d said the things I felt<br \/>\nWhen I could share unbound<\/p>\n<p>You knew I loved,<br \/>\nyet many words<br \/>\nleft hanging in the air<\/p>\n<p>You never heard<br \/>\nthe words, I cried<br \/>\nwhen you were barely there<\/p>\n<p>But:<\/p>\n<p>You may have known<br \/>\nHow could I know?<br \/>\nUntil I\u2019m where you\u2019ve been<\/p>\n<p>You show me, though<br \/>\nThat you can pierce<br \/>\nA veil as yet unseen<\/p>\n<p>Until we meet as two new souls<br \/>\nWe live here in this scene<br \/>\nWith you, your birds<br \/>\nAnd I, my thoughts<\/p>\n<p>Existence in between.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/members\/sashas\/profile\/\">SashaS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rub the place between my eyes The pain from simply feeling I step outside to view the skies A hawk, it soothes my healing I look for you in every cloud You rarely let me down I wish I\u2019d said the things I felt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283","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\/1376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144412,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283\/revisions\/144412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}