{"id":134046,"date":"2023-09-02T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134046"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:22:10","slug":"hour-9-the-10-words-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-9-the-10-words-text-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9, the 10 words text prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so.<\/p>\n<p>beet<\/p>\n<p>jacket<\/p>\n<p>tremor<\/p>\n<p>bayou<\/p>\n<p>elbow<\/p>\n<p>lightbulb<\/p>\n<p>cinnamon<\/p>\n<p>bucket<\/p>\n<p>elk<\/p>\n<p>carport<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quake the tremors deep in the bayou<\/p>\n<p>A ripple felt by even distant elk<\/p>\n<p>A drop in the bucket of time<\/p>\n<p>Transforming life in an instant<\/p>\n<p>As I pull my elbow through my jacket<\/p>\n<p>The lightbulb flickers with the shifting earth<\/p>\n<p>Threatening the stability of cinnamon trees<\/p>\n<p>And carports of PVC<\/p>\n<p>I know what I must do<\/p>\n<p>Opening the entrance to my abode, taking the long way<\/p>\n<p>Clinging to the roof as wind tears through the sky<\/p>\n<p>The window to the attic looms,<\/p>\n<p>Beckoning at me<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for a spell<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to subdue hell.<\/p>\n<p>I climb through the window, scatter the salt,<\/p>\n<p>Bite down on the elk horn,<\/p>\n<p>Knowing this will hurt a lot.<\/p>\n<p>A slice, a ribbon<\/p>\n<p>Crimson, like the bark of my nearby tree<\/p>\n<p>And the black creature retreats<\/p>\n<p>Taking the tremors with it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so. beet jacket tremor bayou elbow lightbulb cinnamon bucket elk carport &nbsp; Quake the tremors deep in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5772,5765,6051,224,6055,536,3349,2554,15,391,10,5624],"class_list":["post-134046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023hour9","tag-blood","tag-danger","tag-magic","tag-mysterious","tag-mystery","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-swamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134046","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134230,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134046\/revisions\/134230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}