{"id":134925,"date":"2023-09-02T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134925"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:08:35","slug":"the-tree-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-tree-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tree that stands alone<br \/>\nAt the end of a stream<br \/>\nWhich empties into a large body of water<br \/>\nBigger than a pond, smaller than a lake<br \/>\nThe tree is a cottonwood<br \/>\nThe last of its kind along the stream<br \/>\nOver the years, one by one, a dozen<br \/>\nLeafy companions were uprooted<br \/>\nFor one reason or another<br \/>\nNow this last sentinel of the meadow watches over its domain<br \/>\nSlow moving waters pour into the large pond<br \/>\nWater creatures have found life<br \/>\nBirds, squirrels, and insects make their home<br \/>\nIn the tree\u2014its branches welcome all life<br \/>\nI used to climb that tree in my fearless childhood<br \/>\nWhen the dozen other trees marched away along the stream<br \/>\nI would climb the highest\u2014scaring my friends and siblings<br \/>\nI enjoyed the sway and rustle when the wind blew<br \/>\nUpon the landscape<br \/>\nMany dreams and fantasies came and went with those breezes<br \/>\nMany decades have flown by but the tree still stands<br \/>\nAnd so do I\u2014we\u2019ve weathered the passage of time<br \/>\nWe stand alone, but not lonely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tree that stands alone At the end of a stream Which empties into a large body of water Bigger than a pond, smaller than a lake The tree is a cottonwood The last of its kind along the stream Over the years,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134925","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134934,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134925\/revisions\/134934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}