{"id":51901,"date":"2019-06-22T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51901"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:55:59","slug":"2019-nine-a-wish-for-valkyries-a-sonnet-for-a-romantic-poet-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-nine-a-wish-for-valkyries-a-sonnet-for-a-romantic-poet-me\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 – Nine – “A Wish for Valkyries” A Sonnet for a Romantic Poet, Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I have to go someday, away
\nfrom all the bustle of this life. I know
\nthat nothing lasts forever and I’m not
\nthe one that makes of this a theory,
\nI’m just more proof. It used to be I’d say,
\n“I wanna live until time’s end and show
\nthe gods who’s boss!” But now that I have got
\nto live this much of life, I’m just glad to be.<\/p>\n

If I could ask one thing, just make one request?
\nThis life’s been great. I want no soft release.
\nA poet doesn’t die on the golf course.
\nWarrior poets end with some great test.<\/p>\n

I’d like to go while fighting some great beast
\nWhile Valkyries come for me, with a horse.<\/p>\n

(Certainly not my best but it’s sincerely intended.\u00a0 I am a horribly romantic person, after all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I have to go someday, away from all the bustle of this life. I know that nothing lasts forever and I’m not the one that makes of this a theory, I’m just more proof. It used to be I’d say, “I wanna live…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51901","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\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51912,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51901\/revisions\/51912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}