{"id":134721,"date":"2023-09-02T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134721"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:16:31","slug":"poetry-marathon-hour-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poetry-marathon-hour-one\/","title":{"rendered":"POETRY MARATHON &#8211; HOUR ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She found us within our pasts,<br \/>\nmemories enveloping us like cloaks.<br \/>\nOur complicated yet precious web of love and experiences had created a tapestry in our hearts.<br \/>\nIn the stillness of the evening, she arrived to fulfill a longing,<br \/>\nher eyes holding a story, seeing through our fa\u00e7ade and secrets.<br \/>\nAs the years had left their mark on our youth,<br \/>\nher gaze held the essence of who we had become<br \/>\n&#8211; the joy, sorrow and struggles that had shaped us.<br \/>\nHer presence was like a beacon of light,<br \/>\nguiding us through the memories, dark and bright.<br \/>\nIn that timeless moment, we were blessed by her grace,<br \/>\nfor she reminded us that the past is not lost,<br \/>\nit lives within us like a timeless yoke.<br \/>\nThis is how she found us,<br \/>\nwith the past draped about us like a cloak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/selkie-weaning-young-redux\"><strong><em>\u00a0after Diana Khoi Nguyen\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She found us within our pasts, memories enveloping us like cloaks. Our complicated yet precious web of love and experiences had created a tapestry in our hearts. In the stillness of the evening, she arrived to fulfill a longing, her eyes holding a story, seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134721","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\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144405,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134721\/revisions\/144405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}