{"id":40750,"date":"2017-08-06T02:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40750"},"modified":"2017-08-06T02:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:50:05","slug":"hour-twleve-beautiful-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-twleve-beautiful-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twleve: A Moment of Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note: Yet another time and the last time I will be ignoring a prompt in this 2017 Poetry Marathon. I will be concluding this marathon with a poem about a dream I had. Enjoy reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once was in a sacred cave<\/p>\n<p>that had nothing in it<\/p>\n<p>but a cliff<\/p>\n<p>and light blue glowing water below it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My hands stretched out,<\/p>\n<p>I was determined to dive in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Diving in was like diving into<\/p>\n<p>the endless morning sky above<\/p>\n<p>but maybe even better.<\/p>\n<p>Because I was landing into<\/p>\n<p>something more solid,<\/p>\n<p>something that could caress my skin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though the water changed into lava<\/p>\n<p>at a last second&#8217;s notice,<\/p>\n<p>it didn&#8217;t matter<\/p>\n<p>because at least I had the courage to dive<\/p>\n<p>into something that was potentially great.<\/p>\n<p>And it was at that thought alone that changed the lava<\/p>\n<p>back to the beautiful serene water below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So when I finally land into the water,<\/p>\n<p>the walls echo hallelujah,<\/p>\n<p>and I am filled with glee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even it&#8217;s just for a moment that I feel this,<\/p>\n<p>at least I can say it&#8217;s a moment of triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: Yet another time and the last time I will be ignoring a prompt in this 2017 Poetry Marathon. I will be concluding this marathon with a poem about a dream I had. Enjoy reading. I once was in a sacred cave that had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2223,680,198,375],"class_list":["post-40750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2017","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-beautiful","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41007,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750\/revisions\/41007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}