{"id":135400,"date":"2023-09-02T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135400"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:07:55","slug":"hour-eight-poem-image-lamp-lit-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-eight-poem-image-lamp-lit-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eight Poem Image &#8220;Lamp Lit by Fire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come with my battery-powered lamp to sit by your fire,<\/p>\n<p>my tired feet warmed by the flames of your heart,<\/p>\n<p>drawing energy not from a&#8217;s or c&#8217;s or even d&#8217;s but from solar flares.<\/p>\n<p>I sit in sunshine even in the dark of night<\/p>\n<p>reflecting the source that you are.<\/p>\n<p>Your fire needs to claim a log.<\/p>\n<p>It needs to crackle and crisp the edges of whatever draws near.<\/p>\n<p>Take this wood, take this word, and burn me, baby, bring it on!<\/p>\n<p>We are lit from within with that destructive, creative energy of love<\/p>\n<p>where every wood chip splinters and sparks<\/p>\n<p>demanding yet more fuel for the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willingly, I turn my face toward your inner sun<\/p>\n<p>and recharge my batteries to be a light in the night,<\/p>\n<p>sitting in the splendor of your flame,<\/p>\n<p>my beacon humbly holding vigil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come with my battery-powered lamp to sit by your fire, my tired feet warmed by the flames of your heart, drawing energy not from a&#8217;s or c&#8217;s or even d&#8217;s but from solar flares. I sit in sunshine even in the dark of night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135400","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\/5269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135729,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135400\/revisions\/135729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}