{"id":39666,"date":"2017-08-05T23:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39666"},"modified":"2022-06-27T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:50:04","slug":"goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/5\/17 8:26pm<br \/>\nGoddess<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Gaia<br \/>\nRustling through effervescent decades<br \/>\nShe is the spiraling serpent that plucked the apple from the tree<br \/>\nShe is the root of the tree.<br \/>\nShe is Persephone<br \/>\nLicking pomegranate seeds, her fruit of the dead.<br \/>\nShe is unafraid of the dead, unafraid of the underworld.<br \/>\nShe is what made Orpheus look back.<br \/>\nIt was she<br \/>\nThat drew iron tears down Pluto&#8217;s cheek.<br \/>\nAnd then reborn as<br \/>\nVenus spawning from the sea.<br \/>\nShe is in the waves of every mouth<br \/>\na god has ever kissed.<br \/>\nShe is in the frail wrist of the fading,<br \/>\nWading in the tides of dried flowers<br \/>\nand humble offerings.<\/p>\n<p>What of psyche?<br \/>\nWhat of the personification of soul?<br \/>\nWraps you up in satin sheets<br \/>\nand eats you whole.<br \/>\nPours into every vein<br \/>\nVain like Narcissus,<br \/>\nheld in every echo.<br \/>\nJust like Echo, speaking only mirrors of her love.<br \/>\nGaia, my love.<br \/>\nPull you into the river to quiver along the valleys,<br \/>\nGripping talons into the earth.<br \/>\nShe is rebirth.<br \/>\nInfinite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/5\/17 8:26pm Goddess Sweet Gaia Rustling through effervescent decades She is the spiraling serpent that plucked the apple from the tree She is the root of the tree. She is Persephone Licking pomegranate seeds, her fruit of the dead. She is unafraid of the dead,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123938,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions\/123938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}