{"id":54116,"date":"2019-06-22T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54116"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:46:02","slug":"prompt-11-this-accident-of-being-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-11-this-accident-of-being-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 11: This Accident of Being Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This Accident of Being Lost\u00a0<\/em>(Leann Betasamosake Simpon)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these dark trees breathe for me<\/p>\n<p>many times a day<\/p>\n<p>when I cannot walk myself &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>no longer able to take one more step<\/p>\n<p>or falling<\/p>\n<p>breathless<\/p>\n<p>into holes in the path<\/p>\n<p>edged with grasses too tall to warn me of the gap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my best laid plans lead me,<\/p>\n<p>inevitably<\/p>\n<p>to places so distant from the destination Creator<\/p>\n<p>Great Spirit<\/p>\n<p>Gichi Manitou<\/p>\n<p>wanted for me &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>the walk back to the starting point is always so much farther than necessary<\/p>\n<p>if I had listened to those trees in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>All I want is to walk with grace,<\/p>\n<p>shod with silk stockings made of prayers<\/p>\n<p>so I bring medicines in my basket<\/p>\n<p>when I miss another turn to find others lost like me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s good to be here these days<\/p>\n<p>in the company of Synchronicity&#8217;s children<\/p>\n<p>where we are never lost by accident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Accident of Being Lost\u00a0(Leann Betasamosake Simpon) &nbsp; these dark trees breathe for me many times a day when I cannot walk myself &#8211; no longer able to take one more step or falling breathless into holes in the path edged with grasses too tall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54116","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54156,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54116\/revisions\/54156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}