{"id":139802,"date":"2023-09-03T01:33:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139802"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:33:49","slug":"139802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/139802\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Poem Puzzle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our Words<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">little \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 seem\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 dance \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 our<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whispers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 across \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 air<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lonely\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 try\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 hide \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 empty<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 words \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 catch \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 fling \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 precious<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0don&#8217;t \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 don&#8217;t\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 our \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 little<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sounds \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 stay \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 linger\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 lost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0say\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 but\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 they<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 you\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 me\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 until<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reclaimed \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 lost \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 only \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 then<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Little whispers seem to dance across our air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lonely whispers try to hide across empty air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lonely, we try and hide words, empty thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But we catch and fling words, precious thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but don\u2019t catch, don\u2019t fling. Our precious little<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sounds say stay and linger. But lost they<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are. Say, <em>you and me<\/em>. But until they<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are reclaimed, you lost me. Only until then.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poem Puzzle Our Words &nbsp; little \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 seem\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 dance \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 our \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whispers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 across \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139802","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139813,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139802\/revisions\/139813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}