{"id":50947,"date":"2019-06-22T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50947"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:14:27","slug":"poem-8-the-impossible-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-8-the-impossible-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 8: &#8220;The Impossible Blessing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>how do you explain<\/p>\n<div>what is beyond words?<\/div>\n<div>something that grounds more than roots<\/div>\n<div>and nurtures more than flowing water<\/div>\n<div>encourages more than summer sunshine<\/div>\n<div>supports steadier than sailing on wind<\/div>\n<div>matters more than air in lungs<\/div>\n<div>is more necessary than safe embraces?<\/div>\n<div>how do you ever begin to\u00a0 express<\/div>\n<div>what is beyond your own comprehension<\/div>\n<div>better than any wish imagined to a genie,<\/div>\n<div>more anchoring than steel or silver?<\/div>\n<div>the answer is the impossible blessing<\/div>\n<div>of trying to give you my words<\/div>\n<div>in exchange for all you have given to me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how do you explain what is beyond words? something that grounds more than roots and nurtures more than flowing water encourages more than summer sunshine supports steadier than sailing on wind matters more than air in lungs is more necessary than safe embraces? how do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50960,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50947\/revisions\/50960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}