{"id":31795,"date":"2017-08-05T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31795"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:36:47","slug":"the-elements-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-elements-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elements of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the elements of you<\/p>\n<p>you grew me from a seed<br \/>\nand with kind words, soft touches, smiles and casual conversations<br \/>\nI sprouted out of the earth<br \/>\nout of love\u2019s good soil<\/p>\n<p>you watered me with may showers and warm baths<br \/>\nand walks in the rain<br \/>\nand my heart ignited like wild fires in a dry brush<\/p>\n<p>your words carried me like dust in the wind<br \/>\nallowed me to see things in my mind\u2019s eye<br \/>\nthat I didn\u2019t have vision for before you came along<\/p>\n<p>now-<br \/>\ndry once again,<br \/>\nI am desperate to be submerged in black earth-<br \/>\nthirsty for your cooling rain-<br \/>\nhard pressed for the fire that only you can bring<br \/>\nI am waiting for the wind of your love<br \/>\nto blow again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the elements of you you grew me from a seed and with kind words, soft touches, smiles and casual conversations I sprouted out of the earth out of love\u2019s good soil you watered me with may showers and warm baths and walks in the rain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31809,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795\/revisions\/31809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}