{"id":33036,"date":"2017-08-05T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33036"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:57:25","slug":"shut-up-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/shut-up-and-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut up and dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1490842095300-052469284362.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1490842095300-052469284362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>shut up and dance!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You, there!<\/p>\n<p>You, there, with your belly full of stars:<\/p>\n<p>can you see the path,<\/p>\n<p>the link,<\/p>\n<p>the umbilical cord between you and me made of lightning bugs \u2013<\/p>\n<p>yellow flies \u2013<\/p>\n<p>pieces of stars shattered by baby Thunderbirds<\/p>\n<p>playing ball to keep them from making storms from boredom?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could follow that trail to you \u2013<\/p>\n<p>the one between us that links us to the steps of the ancestors<\/p>\n<p>and our beautiful beginnings<\/p>\n<p>before we fell from the sky and shattered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We danced by shadow filled with light so bright<\/p>\n<p>that to hide it would shame all the stars witness to our dancing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You hold my way to the light as I hold yours<\/p>\n<p>and all our hopes become glass bridges over the Grand Canyon \u2013<\/p>\n<p>only dangerous if we look down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You, there!<\/p>\n<p>The secret to shadow dancing, then, is to shut up and dance \u2013<\/p>\n<p>with the stars in your belly,<\/p>\n<p>like fireflies,<\/p>\n<p>and don\u2019t look down unless you remember:<\/p>\n<p>I dance with you, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>L. Elke<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a9 Aug 5\/17\u00a0 prompt 3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; shut up and dance! \u00a0 You, there! You, there, with your belly full of stars: can you see the path, the link, the umbilical cord between you and me made of lightning bugs \u2013 yellow flies \u2013 pieces of stars shattered by baby Thunderbirds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33293,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions\/33293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}