{"id":53120,"date":"2019-06-23T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53120"},"modified":"2019-07-16T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T23:14:50","slug":"11-blue-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/11-blue-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"11. Blue Clouds\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Blue<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds can be in reverse of white or gray.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They come after rainbow clouds, and do not stay.<\/p>\n<p>An iridescence, a solar halo with ice crystals and water droplets that diffract the sun&#8217;s light.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flying higher than any man-made kite.<\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds are dreams deferred, like Langston Hughes&#8217; poem.<\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds are definitely something elusive we can &#8220;show&#8217;em&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They are<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>no longer imaginary, they are more like blue moons in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Two full moons in one month are the distant relatives of blue clouds who can often appear shy.<\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds are saved up dreams come to life and fears rolled into one.<\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds are filled with all the hues of the oceans, rivers, seas, lakes and sun.<\/p>\n<p>They include every spectrum of the sky, from the early morning sliver grey \u00a0that comes hours before the break of blue begins to mature into day.<\/p>\n<p>Long before it melts into the time of day between light and dark.<\/p>\n<p>It is made up of the twilight that illuminates the sky line like roman glass with its soft pastel hues.<\/p>\n<p>Deepening into jewel tones that appear after sunsets turn into midnight black that cover the\u00a0the night the sky in the darkest shades of blackberry blue.<\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds are all the tears we produce both joyous or sad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds are the veins in our bodies that we always had.<\/p>\n<p>Dependent on the amount of oxygen needed to make the iron rich blood coursing through our our veins appear blue.<\/p>\n<p>Blue clouds beget the questions we have deep inside.<\/p>\n<p>Blue is the faith we choose not to hide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All rights reserved copyright (c) 2019 Natasha Vanover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Blue clouds can be in reverse of white or gray.\u00a0 They come after rainbow clouds, and do not stay. An iridescence, a solar halo with ice crystals and water droplets that diffract the sun&#8217;s light.\u00a0 Flying higher than any man-made kite. Blue clouds are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53120"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59599,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions\/59599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}