{"id":133355,"date":"2023-09-02T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133355"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:33:54","slug":"the-flame-to-your-stars-hour-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-flame-to-your-stars-hour-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flame to Your Stars &#8211; Hour Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Flame to Your Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-133452\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Out in the desert, a sky filled with stars<br \/>\nI sit in the darkness, a fire burns afar<br \/>\nI shine light upon it and realize the view<br \/>\nThe stars, the flame, the light &#8211; all for you<br \/>\nI think back to the night that we met long ago<br \/>\nA night, rather similar, beneath moonlit glow<br \/>\nWhere oft nervous talking gave way to a kiss<br \/>\nWhich led to a life that I now truly miss<br \/>\nThat evening, its moonlight, its flame and its stars<br \/>\nCame up in our memories, a night truly ours<br \/>\nA whole life before us, little we knew then<br \/>\nNow left but in memory of what might have been<br \/>\nThat night you were with me<br \/>\nIn ways, you are still<br \/>\nBut, residing in Heaven<br \/>\nTwinkling down as God&#8217;s will<br \/>\nO&#8217;er that spot oh so special<br \/>\nSo sacred and ours<br \/>\nWhere I feel you with me, my flame to your stars<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: https:\/\/unsplash.com\/<span class=\"atwho-query\">@tianhao_wang<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flame to Your Stars &nbsp; Out in the desert, a sky filled with stars I sit in the darkness, a fire burns afar I shine light upon it and realize the view The stars, the flame, the light &#8211; all for you I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[5772,680,3019,1806,3456,392],"class_list":["post-133355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133355","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133593,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133355\/revisions\/133593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}