{"id":139534,"date":"2023-09-03T01:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139534"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:24:51","slug":"kaleidoscope-prompt-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/kaleidoscope-prompt-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaleidoscope (prompt 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you place a heavy weapon in my hand<br \/>\nand do not flinch when I bring it down hard<br \/>\nwhen shards of ceramic glass and plastic<br \/>\nscatter about us in fractals<\/p>\n<p>you turn the music up louder<br \/>\nand do not mind that it is not your taste<br \/>\nstacking more objects soon laid to waste<br \/>\nas I beat them smaller and smaller<\/p>\n<p>you take turns passing off sledgehammer crowbar baseball bat<br \/>\nand do not judge when I swing and miss<br \/>\nwhen I release my pent up thrashing<br \/>\nin hopes it will stop snapping at you<\/p>\n<p>you film me unhinged in slow motion split<br \/>\nlike a broken tv screen<br \/>\nand do not fail to see the joy beneath<br \/>\na kaleidoscope of energy<\/p>\n<p>flecked with madness and destruction<br \/>\nvoid of intended function<br \/>\nmy inner workings lay exposed and open<br \/>\nto learning healthy ways to cope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you place a heavy weapon in my hand and do not flinch when I bring it down hard when shards of ceramic glass and plastic scatter about us in fractals you turn the music up louder and do not mind that it is not your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139534","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139739,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139534\/revisions\/139739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}