{"id":50388,"date":"2019-06-22T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50388"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:51:38","slug":"going-and-staying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/going-and-staying\/","title":{"rendered":"Going and Staying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come to the place where nature&#8217;s blessings flow<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll settle in a life long left behind<br \/>\nTo play the music fast, and sing it slow<\/p>\n<p>The world outside may scream and fall apart<br \/>\nBut it can&#8217;t hurt us living in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Reality&#8217;s become a crazy show.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll take the modern world and hit rewind<br \/>\nCome to the place where nature&#8217;s blessings flow<\/p>\n<p>Forget the world and all its many cares<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll kill themselves just fine without us there<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll tend the crops, we&#8217;ll reap, and plant, and hoe<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll live the simple life and still find time<br \/>\nTo play the music fast, and sing it slow<\/p>\n<p>And if they bomb the cities flat at last<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll sell our goods to any who come past.<\/p>\n<p>The two of us need fear no friend or foe<br \/>\nNo threats or enmity of any kind<br \/>\nCome to the place where nature&#8217;s blessings flow<\/p>\n<p>No duty have we but to us alone<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t make this planet a warzone<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll live in peace, and never need to go<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll set the pace, and it will be just fine<br \/>\nTo play the music fast, and sing it slow<\/p>\n<p>The world could end and we would never know<br \/>\nThe perfect spot to live well and unwind<br \/>\nCome to the place where nature&#8217;s blessings flow<br \/>\nTo play the music fast, and sing it slow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Form: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/grareformata.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gr\u00e1 Reformata<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prompt: The video in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-9-hour-7\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">this post<\/span><\/a>. I expect I&#8217;ve completely misrepresented the song, sorry &#8211; I was listening to the mood rather than the words, and I&#8217;ve long wanted to write about the dark side of self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>This form is tricky. I should have given it more than one hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come to the place where nature&#8217;s blessings flow We&#8217;ll settle in a life long left behind To play the music fast, and sing it slow The world outside may scream and fall apart But it can&#8217;t hurt us living in the past. Reality&#8217;s become a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2813,1604,1293,2962],"class_list":["post-50388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-formal","tag-hour-seven","tag-music-prompt","tag-self-sufficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50388","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50388\/revisions\/50722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}