{"id":48793,"date":"2019-06-22T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48793"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:34:25","slug":"prompt-5-dreaming-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-5-dreaming-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #5 Dreaming out loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\n<strong>I have five minutes to live, <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>what's going to happen in 5 minutes?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The flight is going to run out of fuel<\/strong>\r\n<strong>the plane is struggling to find landing<\/strong>\r\n<strong>we are surrounded by water on all sides\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>in a war torn region.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>Missiles fly,\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Bombs explode.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Next thing I know,\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>the captain announces<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Brace for crash!<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Brace for crash!<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Oxygen masks fall down,<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I grasp mine\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>holding on tightly\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>with that little bleak sight of hope<\/strong>\r\n<strong>that convinces me it's not over.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>To keep fighting on.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I turn blank,\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I can't keep up with the instructions<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I am panicking,<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Fear sets in.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Regret takes over<\/strong>\r\n<strong>As I wished all those times\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>instead of ignoring those instructions<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Had I paid the slightest attention to those instructions<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I bet I would've been alright.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>If only...<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I break into a cold sweat<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>If only...<\/strong>\r\n<strong>My face turns red.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Bracing for the fall<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Gravity don't fail me now...\r\n\r\nThe plane is free falling<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I see my entire life flash before my eyes...<\/strong>\r\n<strong>The wind almost tears through my skin<\/strong>\r\n<strong>as I brace for impact.  <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I land on my bed<\/strong>\r\n<strong>It's soft.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I'm surprised!<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I was going to die.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<strong>And my face and body is drenched<\/strong>\r\n<strong>from all the cold sweat.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>It all felt so real<\/strong>\r\n<strong>and traumatic<\/strong>\r\n<strong>I cried my heart out.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>-Janice Raquela Mendonca\r\n\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49256\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49256\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1517868163143-6eb6c78dbf54-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1517868163143-6eb6c78dbf54-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1517868163143-6eb6c78dbf54.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Image by Sebasti\u00e1n Le\u00f3n Prado<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have five minutes to live, what&#8217;s going to happen in 5 minutes? The flight is going to run out of fuel the plane is struggling to find landing we are surrounded by water on all sides\u00a0 in a war torn region. Missiles fly,\u00a0 Bombs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49386,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793\/revisions\/49386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}