{"id":138468,"date":"2023-09-02T23:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138468"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:21:45","slug":"question-2023poetrymarathon-prompthour15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/question-2023poetrymarathon-prompthour15\/","title":{"rendered":"Question #2023poetrymarathon #prompthour15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lady in the waiting room<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Vermillion smeared on forehead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sandal paste on her neck<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hands buried in beads<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fumbling fingers moving<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The mouth chanting a prayer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As her mother<\/span>\u2019<span lang=\"EN-US\">s tired eyes wait<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her hand clinging to her colostomy bag<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Patiently, just as the doctor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Surely she has come from the temple<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And in this cancer hospital<\/span>\u00a0she is<span lang=\"EN-US\"> not alone, <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Many come that way<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Church, temple, mosque, synagogue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Clinging to life in a clear plastic bag.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The homeless child tries not to stare, <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Looks away, whispers softly, to himself,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cHas He ever heard you, then<\/span><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">He to whom you pray?\u201d<\/span><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady in the waiting room Vermillion smeared on forehead. Sandal paste on her neck Hands buried in beads Fumbling fingers moving The mouth chanting a prayer As her mother\u2019s tired eyes wait Her hand clinging to her colostomy bag Patiently, just as the doctor said&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[5772,680,3110],"class_list":["post-138468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-prompt15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138468","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\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138685,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138468\/revisions\/138685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}