{"id":25935,"date":"2016-08-13T23:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:33:49","slug":"hour-9-prompt-the-view-from-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-9-prompt-the-view-from-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9 Prompt &#8211; The View From Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to first image in the given prompt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b><i>I am a bird in a gilded cage,<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b><i>I look astonishingly at the sky,<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b><i>I try to understand deep within me,<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>How does it feel to fly?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The chirping of the birds flying over the lake,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>High in the sky,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Makes me feel sad,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>And I almost cry.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>I want to open the cage,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>And experience ecstasy and freedom,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>I want to touch the seven colours of the rainbow,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Or on the oldest tree in the backyard<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>I want to make my little nest of life;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Someday I want to get drenched in the rain,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Someday I want to struggle<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>To just quench my thirst in the summer sun.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>I want to live the cycle of life,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>From spring to autumn, how does it feel to fly?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>This is not my home,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>It makes me feel claustrophobic all the time,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>My dreams are locked in this cage,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>I can only notice the changing colours and lights in the sky,\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>They always fascinate me<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>And make me dream of flying high.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>I hope my misery comes to an end,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>And I am soon set free to fly high,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>More of us birds\u00a0will\u00a0flock\u00a0together,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>We will migrate from one place to another,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Some will die of hunger,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Though living a life of freedom.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b><i>I die daily,<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Caged in a place where I can only cry.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to first image in the given prompt. &nbsp; I am a bird in a gilded cage, I look astonishingly at the sky, I try to understand deep within me, How does it feel to fly? The chirping of the birds flying over the lake,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935","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\/874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25943,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions\/25943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}