{"id":24992,"date":"2016-08-13T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24992"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:07:54","slug":"poem-12-final-poem-half-marathon-2016-by-ingrid-exner-my-canoe-companion-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-12-final-poem-half-marathon-2016-by-ingrid-exner-my-canoe-companion-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #12- Final Poem Half Marathon 2016 by Ingrid Exner-\u201c My Canoe Companion and I\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time that I saw moonlight<\/p>\n<p>by canoe<\/p>\n<p>I was awe-<\/p>\n<p>struck!<\/p>\n<p>Spread out before me<\/p>\n<p>on a black watery cloth,<\/p>\n<p>lay jewels of sparkling Light.!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed<\/p>\n<p>by the bright light<\/p>\n<p>cast by the climbing moon<\/p>\n<p>and mesmerized by the watery Lake,<\/p>\n<p>turned molten black.<\/p>\n<p>Absolute silence<\/p>\n<p>created a void<\/p>\n<p>full<\/p>\n<p>Of Beauty<\/p>\n<p>And Peace!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Canoe Companion<\/p>\n<p>carried a spare flashlight in hand,<\/p>\n<p>While I wore my headlamp attached to<\/p>\n<p>The brim of my cap.<\/p>\n<p>We paddled in silence-<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying our companionship and<\/p>\n<p>the silence of the lake-<\/p>\n<p>silence only broken by<\/p>\n<p>the occasional cry of a nearby loon-<\/p>\n<p>a true symbol of summertime on a northern lake!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We continued to paddle in silence-<\/p>\n<p>highlighted by the glow of the moon<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded and swaddled<\/p>\n<p>by the nearby canopy<\/p>\n<p>Of birch and cedar tress,<\/p>\n<p>My canoe companion and I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Exner, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time that I saw moonlight by canoe I was awe- struck! Spread out before me on a black watery cloth, lay jewels of sparkling Light.! &nbsp; I was amazed by the bright light cast by the climbing moon and mesmerized by the watery&#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-24992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992","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=24992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25015,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions\/25015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}