{"id":134330,"date":"2023-09-02T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134330"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:29:35","slug":"poem-9-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-9-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humble artist, shine your light on<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the world of worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A fashion show in all its ceremonial glory,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preaches about the encroaching\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deadlines of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poised for a wedding,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">captured and still,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">detail makes beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the tiny marks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tails upon tails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of questions and answers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhy do we do it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amongst the chatting crowd,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">between rooms five-hundred to now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I stand on the shoulders of<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a man, who I know;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, I cannot trust to lead me\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">through unscathed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am carried up above, black light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eating my molecules<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">above the worlds, beyond the gods<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humble artist, shine your light on the world of worlds. A fashion show in all its ceremonial glory, Preaches about the encroaching\u00a0 deadlines of life. Poised for a wedding, captured and still, detail makes beauty. View the tiny marks, tails upon tails. Of questions and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134330","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\/5300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134352,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134330\/revisions\/134352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}