{"id":39937,"date":"2017-08-05T23:47:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39937"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:47:02","slug":"adonis-and-aphrodite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/adonis-and-aphrodite\/","title":{"rendered":"Adonis and Aphrodite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Adonis and Aphrodite<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are my Adonis;<\/p>\n<p>rippling, marble body<\/p>\n<p>perfect in its beauty.<\/p>\n<p>I am hardly Aphrodite \u2013<\/p>\n<p>more like Medusa \u2013<\/p>\n<p>withering stares turning everyone to stone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But you,<\/p>\n<p>master of perfection,<\/p>\n<p>your gaze shatters my stone prison \u2013<\/p>\n<p>makes me feel like that Goddess who loved Adonis and no other<\/p>\n<p>without heartache for losing him<\/p>\n<p>after warning him not to hunt one day.<\/p>\n<p>Just one day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like I beg you to be careful<\/p>\n<p>when you do what you do when you do what you do.<\/p>\n<p>I am forever fretting that I will weep over your broken body one day, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That would kill me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the little resemblance my face holds to Hers,<\/p>\n<p>I am nothing like her, at all, in immortality.<\/p>\n<p>But you \u2013<\/p>\n<p>you are Adonis in every way but name<\/p>\n<p>and I shall play your fool \u2013<\/p>\n<p>divine comedy \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Aphrodite in my dreams,<\/p>\n<p>or in the forest,<\/p>\n<p>anywhere you rest your beautiful head.<\/p>\n<p>R. L. Elke<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Aug 5\/17 prompt 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adonis and Aphrodite \u00a0 You are my Adonis; rippling, marble body perfect in its beauty. I am hardly Aphrodite \u2013 more like Medusa \u2013 withering stares turning everyone to stone. &nbsp; But you, master of perfection, your gaze shatters my stone prison \u2013 makes me&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39937","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=39937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39940,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39937\/revisions\/39940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}