{"id":143724,"date":"2023-09-03T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143724"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:59:41","slug":"hour-twenty-three-alien-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-twenty-three-alien-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-three: Alien Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We watched the alien aircraft<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watched them hovering above our world<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watched to see if we were welcoming<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">New friends who would walk<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">With us discovering our way<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Together or<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Would we welcome invading monsters<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming to take, not give<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">They landed on the Shifting Sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where we sailed in my childhood<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digging beneath to gather the last<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Coula <\/em>that burrowed there and the last<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Priri<\/em> that bloomed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did they know we\u2019d killed our world<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">and were waiting for it to die?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Were they deities come to punish us<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For our careless care what was given?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or were they our<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salvation, <em>shatra<\/em> of legends<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who would show us how to make our world<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Live again?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Jala<\/em> held a handful of color<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To shower them in gratitude<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Berth <\/em>hid the weapon inside<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Close at hand, until we could<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Know what awaited us<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We watched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched the alien aircraft Watched them hovering above our world Watched to see if we were welcoming New friends who would walk With us discovering our way Together or Would we welcome invading monsters Coming to take, not give &nbsp; They landed on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5783],"class_list":["post-143724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-marathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143724","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145387,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143724\/revisions\/145387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}