{"id":21244,"date":"2016-08-13T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21244"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:49:55","slug":"hour-06-03-30-04-30am-prompt-haibun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-06-03-30-04-30am-prompt-haibun\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 06) 03.30-04.30am. PROMPT: \u201chaibun\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>Part of what I&#8217;m hoping to do over the course of the marathon is (should circumstances allow) is work on poems in proposed sequences\/other projects. The previous poem &#8220;Duchess of Oldenburg&#8221; (though owing to the prompt, it was very different to how I thought it might be) was for such a project. And so is this. It&#8217;s for &#8220;Dropped the Sky&#8221;\u00a0a Novel in Poems Young Adult book I&#8217;m working on\u00a0which chronicles a pretty total invasion &amp; how the few ragtag survivors cope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>rhapsody<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">when they came : no one knew what to do : met up with two older guys : figured themselves soldiers : couple of shotguns : &amp; high powered rifles : peashooters basically : compared to what we were against : only we didn\u2019t know : at the time : i refused a weapon : even though i could handle a gun : acted as a scout : while they blundered : all swagger : hollywood heroes : idiots : came across an enemy soldier : in its suit : got some shots off : but were : vaporised : literally into air : 2 quick blasts : afterwards : it walked the path : beneath where i was hiding : was so mad : i swung down : ripped the hoses : out of its helmet : out of its tank : the suit\u2019s death was slower : much slower : than those two : stupid farmboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the dust was orange<br \/>\nsame shade as the setting sun<br \/>\n\u2014 but was once two men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of what I&#8217;m hoping to do over the course of the marathon is (should circumstances allow) is work on poems in proposed sequences\/other projects. The previous poem &#8220;Duchess of Oldenburg&#8221; (though owing to the prompt, it was very different to how I thought it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[1552,1553,1554,897,1555,1556,292,1557],"class_list":["post-21244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-dropped-the-sky","tag-farmboys","tag-guns","tag-haibun","tag-killing","tag-novel-in-poems","tag-war","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions\/21343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}