Hour 13<\/p>\n
9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n
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“Dunes…”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ve wandered far – both life and world<\/p>\n coasts and deserts<\/p>\n both salt and clear,<\/p>\n and life itself – God’s touch was near.<\/p>\n And found the “dunes” of life that entrap the living<\/p>\n with the sands that bind within hourglass forms<\/p>\n ’til life is held so tight and dear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our dunes bear no Melange to guide our sight.<\/p>\n Nothing to pause the mires of life that draw<\/p>\n and imprison our very souls.<\/p>\n Each step, each pause, each breath – brings neither peace<\/p>\n nor surcease… the motion of emotion buries then embalms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And I’ve wandered the echoes behind our eyes<\/p>\n seen the release of wormsign to come.<\/p>\n Prayed to a silent God who KNEW what was<\/p>\n and will be.\u00a0 And felt the Son bring a smile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Walk with me…<\/p>\n beside – neither behind nor ahead.<\/p>\n Share the vision that holds us close and free.<\/p>\n And understand what it is to be “we”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris<\/p>\n (C) Chris Twyford 9\/2\/2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 13 9\/2\/2023 “Dunes…” I’ve wandered far – both life and world coasts and deserts both salt and clear, and life itself – God’s touch was near. And found the “dunes” of life that entrap the living with the sands that bind within…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6172,5735,10,1084],"class_list":["post-137213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023-hour-13","tag-chris","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213","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\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144901,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213\/revisions\/144901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}