{"id":137554,"date":"2023-09-02T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137554"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:14:47","slug":"2023-hour-14-sleepless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/2023-hour-14-sleepless\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Hour 14: Sleepless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prompt from 2016 Marathon: Write a poem that contains one or more of the following common phrases but uses them in a different context than they are usually used. Ideally you would use more than one of the phrases, or repeatedly use the same phrase.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWelcome home\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThank you\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cExcuse me\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHave a nice day\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cPardon me\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHow are you?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the thoughts crowding into the surprisingly limited space of my mind at night mill about, brushing against one another, pushing through the narrow aisles and seeking space to stand and breathe.<br \/>\nPardon me.<br \/>\nWherever or whatever keeps those thoughts carefully hidden during the bright and open hours of the day cannot hold them back when the darkness falls and the barriers fade to wisps of transparent smoke.<br \/>\nExcuse me.<br \/>\nLike the entirety of a bat colony taking flight from their cave of upside-down docility, these thoughts wing about, lacking precision, disdaining focus, calling out for chaotic collaboration.<br \/>\nPardon me.<br \/>\nWhile a single entity calls for quiet, for the cacophony to subside in favor of the welcoming cavern of empty space that cradles sleep, the crowd laughs and jeers, sobs and stomps, cries out for the attention each one craves.<br \/>\nExcuse me.<br \/>\nThe party lingers through the early morning hours, every uninvited guest promising to take their leave before lapsing into yet another telling of the story everyone else already knows by heart.<br \/>\nPardon me.<br \/>\nAnd finally, as dawn&#8217;s massaging fingers creep above the horizon, those raucous, self-serving thoughts begin to stretch, and yawn, and slip away into their private, unreachable realm.<br \/>\nWelcome home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt from 2016 Marathon: Write a poem that contains one or more of the following common phrases but uses them in a different context than they are usually used. Ideally you would use more than one of the phrases, or repeatedly use the same phrase&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137554","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\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138130,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137554\/revisions\/138130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}