{"id":31848,"date":"2017-08-05T09:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31848"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:56:40","slug":"hour-one-earth-wind-fire-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-one-earth-wind-fire-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elemental<\/p>\n<p>Wild child, breezing through<br \/>\nthe passing days, twigs caught<br \/>\nin my hair, I rode<br \/>\nthe back of the north wind,<br \/>\nher spirit child.<\/p>\n<p>No one ever told me<br \/>\nthose swiftly disappearing<br \/>\ndays would be here<br \/>\nand gone, burned away<br \/>\nin a flaming instant.<\/p>\n<p>For what do flames need<br \/>\nmost to feed them<br \/>\nbut air?<\/p>\n<p>The kinesis of roiling<br \/>\natoms that once informed<br \/>\nmy being became one man&#8217;s<br \/>\nfood, and I nearly disappeared,<br \/>\nsubsumed within the fire.<\/p>\n<p>On my knees in cindered<br \/>\nsupplication, water revived<br \/>\nand cleansed me, and I<br \/>\nevolved once again, a fish<br \/>\ndarting in gleaming shimmers.<\/p>\n<p>Slip-sliding through currents,<br \/>\nanother gently supported,<br \/>\nbehind, below, around, held<br \/>\nbut not restrained by the water<br \/>\nbearer&#8217;s caressing hands.<\/p>\n<p>One day it will come,<br \/>\nmy final being, a child<br \/>\nof the earth at last, coming home.<br \/>\nThe once sustaining waters<br \/>\nwill flow, trickle, and slow.<\/p>\n<p>For what will my own wild<br \/>\nchild need? I will feed<br \/>\nthat which feeds my children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elemental Wild child, breezing through the passing days, twigs caught in my hair, I rode the back of the north wind, her spirit child. No one ever told me those swiftly disappearing days would be here and gone, burned away in a flaming instant. For&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32027,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848\/revisions\/32027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}