{"id":137353,"date":"2023-09-02T21:10:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137353"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:10:38","slug":"the-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 21.6pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;letter-spacing: .1pt\">I was gathering beet greens<br \/>\nwhen I saw the sleeve of his jacket<br \/>\nreach around my waist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.6pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;letter-spacing: .1pt\">A tremor filled my heart,<br \/>\nas I had been longing for his kiss<br \/>\nso many lonely days on the bayou<br \/>\nwondering when he might return\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.6pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;letter-spacing: .1pt\">If he might return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.6pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;letter-spacing: .1pt\">I dropped my elbow full with the harvest<br \/>\nof summer heat\u2026 long days yearning<br \/>\nto feel his life force melt into mine,<br \/>\nour muscles churning in cosmic time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.6pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;letter-spacing: .1pt\">\u201cLooks like we need a new lightbulb for the porch.\u201d<br \/>\nHis smile spoke of more than the practical.<br \/>\nHe was home! Home with me! Home, still with<br \/>\nthe love and wonder of our first cinnamon kiss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.6pt;background: white;margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;letter-spacing: .1pt\">A bucket of strawberries spilled out next to us,<br \/>\nlike hearts begging for love\u2019s blessing,<br \/>\nas we dropped to our knees in grace,<br \/>\nwith only the distant elk as witness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was gathering beet greens when I saw the sleeve of his jacket reach around my waist. A tremor filled my heart, as I had been longing for his kiss so many lonely days on the bayou wondering when he might return\u2026 If he might&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[31,1203],"class_list":["post-137353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-love","tag-passion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137353","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137375,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137353\/revisions\/137375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}