{"id":139161,"date":"2023-09-03T00:19:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139161"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:19:47","slug":"prompt-sixteen-come-visit-me-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-sixteen-come-visit-me-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Sixteen &#8211; Come, visit me please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt Sixteen \u2013 Text Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Write a poem that is pretending to be something else, a set of instructions, a recipe, a letter, a news report, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Come, visit me please<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Dad,<\/p>\n<p>Hope you\u2019re well, but you know,<\/p>\n<p>I have a bone to pick with you, old man<\/p>\n<p>been cross with you for a while.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough to sit in a photo frame<\/p>\n<p>smiling your gentle beatific smile.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the use of being my muse<\/p>\n<p>and sending lightbulbs from afar?<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t you visit, pop in some time,<\/p>\n<p>my heartmind door is always ajar.<\/p>\n<p>Almost three years, since you marched away,<\/p>\n<p>can\u2019t you please turn around, and see?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m doing so fine with this life of mine<\/p>\n<p>wont you please, please just visit me?<\/p>\n<p>She did the decent thing, you know,<\/p>\n<p>and came to me one night.<\/p>\n<p>Magnificent Ma, in her old housecoat,<\/p>\n<p>just to say she\u2019s doing all right.<\/p>\n<p>I need to know that you\u2019re ok too<\/p>\n<p>even as you\u2019ve gone and crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p>I need to share this cake with you<\/p>\n<p>today, as you turn eighty-nine.<\/p>\n<p>Odd how you\u2019ve managed to stay away,<\/p>\n<p>you and me, we were such a team.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s okay you know; I have let you go,<\/p>\n<p>but visit me please,<\/p>\n<p>visit me tonight as I dream.<\/p>\n<p>(Love, from your firstborn)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt Sixteen \u2013 Text Prompt Write a poem that is pretending to be something else, a set of instructions, a recipe, a letter, a news report, etc. &nbsp; Come, visit me please &nbsp; Dear Dad, Hope you\u2019re well, but you know, I have a bone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,5765,680,2158,355,392],"class_list":["post-139161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-full-marathon","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139161","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139192,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139161\/revisions\/139192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}