{"id":48629,"date":"2019-06-22T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48629"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:04:16","slug":"entry-5-half-marathon-19-00-eu-time-five-tanka-on-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/entry-5-half-marathon-19-00-eu-time-five-tanka-on-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry 5 Half-Marathon 19.00 EU time \u2014 Five Tanka on Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>he is no longer there<\/p>\n<p>but she calls out his name<\/p>\n<p>and then waits<\/p>\n<p>to see if his favourite chair<\/p>\n<p>will move by itself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>I wish to die<\/p>\n<p>way ahead of you<\/p>\n<p>that way I&#8217;ll know<\/p>\n<p>someone will be there<\/p>\n<p>to pay the burial fees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>even today<\/p>\n<p>I think of my two dead sons<\/p>\n<p>only when my heart<\/p>\n<p>has turned to earth again<\/p>\n<p>will they be buried<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>death poems &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>we die a little death<\/p>\n<p>each borrowed day<\/p>\n<p>yet live again because<\/p>\n<p>we have to pay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>sometimes a death<\/p>\n<p>will have more meaning<\/p>\n<p>after a life well lived<\/p>\n<p>said the cockroach after<\/p>\n<p>getting crushed by a shoe<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. 1 he is no longer there but she calls out his name and then waits to see if his favourite chair will move by itself &nbsp; 2 I wish to die way ahead of you that way I&#8217;ll know someone will be there to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49045,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629\/revisions\/49045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}