{"id":18933,"date":"2016-08-13T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18933"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:26:25","slug":"before-darkness-poem-3-from-prompt-by-ingrid-exner-half-marathon-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-poem-3-from-prompt-by-ingrid-exner-half-marathon-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness- Poem #3 From Prompt by Ingrid Exner- Half Marathon 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I rise like the Sun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My soul dances<\/p>\n<p>in praise<\/p>\n<p>of the new day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts buzz like<\/p>\n<p>the<\/p>\n<p>humming of bees.<\/p>\n<p>Images and expressions<\/p>\n<p>take wing<\/p>\n<p>like beautiful butterflies<\/p>\n<p>floating freely.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts are as free<\/p>\n<p>as the air itself!<\/p>\n<p>And, my spirit sings!<\/p>\n<p>All this,<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before Darkness<\/p>\n<p>There is light.<\/p>\n<p>And, great insight.<\/p>\n<p>The darkness welcomes others<\/p>\n<p>but it is NOT for me.<\/p>\n<p>Darkness is simply<\/p>\n<p>a collection of moments<\/p>\n<p>whose worth,<\/p>\n<p>I do not see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Exner, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness&#8230; I rise like the Sun! &nbsp; Before Darkness&#8230; My soul dances in praise of the new day! &nbsp; Before Darkness&#8230; My thoughts buzz like the humming of bees. Images and expressions take wing like beautiful butterflies floating freely. My thoughts are as free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24598,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions\/24598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}