{"id":135178,"date":"2023-09-02T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135178"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:26:17","slug":"prompt-10-what-is-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-10-what-is-love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #10 &#8212; what is love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is love, my son once asked me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>You said it lasts forever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>But Uncle John left cousin Daniel<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>And Aunt Jane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Will Daddy leave us?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never, I replied to my son.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, what is love but grief postponed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death will part us all, no matter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">how faithful we remain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing, the Buddha tells us,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">lasts forever. Only change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what is love if not grief<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">in waiting? Handmaiden to bliss<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">grief stands in its shadow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">wearing widows weeds<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">watching\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 listening\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 waiting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is love, my son once asked me You said it lasts forever. But Uncle John left cousin Daniel And Aunt Jane. Will Daddy leave us? Never, I replied to my son. Yet, what is love but grief postponed? Death will part us all, no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135178","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135189,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135178\/revisions\/135189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}