Hour 9<\/p>\n
9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n
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“Starlight…”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twilight pauses my evening<\/p>\n as I await dreams and wishes<\/p>\n til the darkness inhabits the land.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Can you see the faire folk<\/p>\n …gather?<\/p>\n Pause, partner, and begin to swirl?<\/p>\n Can you hear and FEEL the breath of melody<\/p>\n arise as the air begins to shimmer and flow?<\/p>\n And the music – The MUSIC, meanders<\/p>\n and whispershouts so!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the taste, The TASTE – of LIFE<\/p>\n as it flavors your lips,<\/p>\n ’til your tears softly leak as you’re left behind.<\/p>\n And the danse – their DANSE, holds you so –<\/p>\n visions of when the world was aglow.<\/p>\n The times of dreams across all the lands<\/p>\n as the star’s light is held<\/p>\n within gracious hands…<\/p>\n as the pipes lightly sing of wonders to be<\/p>\n and the star’s light shimmers so wondrously.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris<\/p>\n (C) Chris Twyford 9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 9 9\/2\/2023 “Starlight…” Twilight pauses my evening as I await dreams and wishes til the darkness inhabits the land. Can you see the faire folk …gather? Pause, partner, and begin to swirl? Can you hear and FEEL the breath of melody…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5735,10,6065],"class_list":["post-134180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-chris","tag-poetry","tag-writing-2023-hour-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134180","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\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134570,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134180\/revisions\/134570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}