{"id":48523,"date":"2019-06-22T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48523"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:38:22","slug":"prompt-5-h4-collapse-image-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-5-h4-collapse-image-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 5\/H4- Collapse (Image Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sepehr-ghorbanpoor-1513570-unsplash.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Troubled<\/p>\n<p>I tried, I failed<br \/>\nI stood, I flailed<br \/>\nI attempted my task,<br \/>\ntook center stage,<br \/>\nsat on that bench as they asked.<br \/>\nIt fell, my fault they claimed<br \/>\nI tried again and the result was the same.<br \/>\nToday I&#8217;ll try again. With a stool.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no fool if it falls it&#8217;s me not them<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not using that damn bench again<\/p>\n<p>The stage goes quiet, the set is lit.<br \/>\nAcross the stage is where I must sit.<br \/>\nAnd as I enter in the room,<br \/>\nMy heart beats loudly in this tomb.<br \/>\nI approach from behind.<br \/>\nIt cannot see me, the stool is blind<br \/>\nAt least I hope this is the case&#8230;<br \/>\nEven so, I mark my pace.<br \/>\n10 steps away<br \/>\n5, now 3<br \/>\nHope does fill me, it&#8217;s a possibility<br \/>\nThe bench&#8217;s fault, not mine indeed!<br \/>\nI am set up to just succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Two steps away I stand<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s going far better than I planned<br \/>\nThen someone coughs, and I breathe out&#8230;<br \/>\nStupid, stupid, I want to shout.<br \/>\nCollapsing forlorn upon the floor,<br \/>\nThe stool is standing no more.<br \/>\nNor am I, I&#8217;ve given up<br \/>\nWhat fool am I to drink Hope&#8217;s Cup.<br \/>\nI cannot perform in a play<br \/>\nIf without cajoling the props won&#8217;t stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troubled I tried, I failed I stood, I flailed I attempted my task, took center stage, sat on that bench as they asked. It fell, my fault they claimed I tried again and the result was the same. Today I&#8217;ll try again. With a stool&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48523","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48775,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48523\/revisions\/48775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}