{"id":136321,"date":"2023-09-02T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136321"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:03:22","slug":"bewitching-hour-eleven-image-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/bewitching-hour-eleven-image-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bewitching, Hour Eleven, image prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bewitching<\/p>\n<p>Death came for Mother dear,<br \/>\nwhen I was trapped one day.<br \/>\nDeath, the trickster devil,<br \/>\nhad lured me away.<\/p>\n<p>At long last I was freed<br \/>\nwhen another took my place,<br \/>\nalas, too late for Mother,<br \/>\nand Death left little trace.<\/p>\n<p>I raced off after Mother,<br \/>\nhoping to set her free,<br \/>\na bent grass here, a broken twig,<br \/>\nI followed through the trees.<\/p>\n<p>The path, it narrowed winsomely,<br \/>\na tunnel carved from leaves,<br \/>\nbeguiling to my grieving heart,<br \/>\nmy senses were deceived.<\/p>\n<p>Yet on, still on, I followed,<br \/>\nthrough forest glade and glen,<br \/>\nuntil at last I caught them,<br \/>\nMother&#8217;s body and the Raven.<\/p>\n<p>I brought forth Old Man&#8217;s golden dome,<br \/>\ncrafted of sun and rain,<br \/>\nDeath, he could not abide it,<br \/>\nthis shield from mortal pain.<\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s eyes, they opened,<br \/>\nher body drew its breath,<br \/>\nthe witchy glen grew golden,<br \/>\na space now free from Death.<\/p>\n<p>Many years have passed now,<br \/>\nMother and I are free,<br \/>\nwe live on in our forest glen,<br \/>\nforever young, and happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bewitching Death came for Mother dear, when I was trapped one day. Death, the trickster devil, had lured me away. At long last I was freed when another took my place, alas, too late for Mother, and Death left little trace. I raced off after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136321","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136469,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136321\/revisions\/136469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}