{"id":134922,"date":"2023-09-02T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134922"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:38:01","slug":"hour-8-light-cycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-8-light-cycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8 &#8211; Light Cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Finger intertwined, arms outstretch \r\ngossamer sleeves and golden hooded gowns\r\nyou rise above the plains, the meadow\r\nthen dip below and kiss the beau\r\nwho wakes the bride\r\nto watch your glorious radiance\r\nalight the morning sky\r\n\r\nMinutes pass as your reach higher\r\nmore radiant with each passing moment\r\ncheer and play swarm under\r\nwinged insects bathe and delight\r\nin the warmth and glow you provide\r\nas you give your all across the land\r\nfor each living thing to grow and thrive \r\n\r\nThen as you tire and wane a bit\r\nyour youthful souls fall adrift\r\nwhile gravity pulls you toward the earth\r\ndaffodils bow their heads,\r\ntheatrics and watercolors in the sky unite\r\nthe mantis rest their head\r\nstars await their entrance, suspended in flight\r\n\r\nYour life you gave for the glorious day\r\nto illuminate the lost along the way\r\nnurture the creatures, the being, the moss\r\ngiving hope to souls who once felt lost\r\nand now your time to rest has come\r\nand in the morning dispell the night \r\nand wake us with your morning light\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finger intertwined, arms outstretch gossamer sleeves and golden hooded gowns you rise above the plains, the meadow then dip below and kiss the beau who wakes the bride to watch your glorious radiance alight the morning sky Minutes pass as your reach higher more radiant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922","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\/3614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135338,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922\/revisions\/135338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}