{"id":54648,"date":"2019-06-22T23:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54648"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:13:48","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-and-the-end-of-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-beginning-of-the-end-and-the-end-of-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning Of The End -AND- The End Of The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hour 15 Prompts<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt 18: The Beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Write a poem set before the world as we know it came to be. It can be set in the blackness of space, it can involve the big bang or genesis, or anything you imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt 19: The End<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Write a poem set after or during the apocalypse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Beginning&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There was Darkness<\/p>\n<p>There was Infinity<\/p>\n<p>There was Negative and Positive in Equal Balance<\/p>\n<p>There was No Earth, No Life<\/p>\n<p>There was Order in the Universal Chaos &#8211; the Order that enabled Creation<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>In the End&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There is still Darkness &#8211; in Hearts, Minds and Souls<\/p>\n<p>There is still Infinity &#8211; of Greed, Crime and Corruption<\/p>\n<p>There is still Negative and Positive in a Power Struggle<\/p>\n<p>There is still no guarantee that Earth and Life will Survive\/Exist<\/p>\n<p>There is still Universal Chaos in the Order &#8211; the Chaos that will enable Destruction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 15 Prompts&#8230; Prompt 18: The Beginning Write a poem set before the world as we know it came to be. It can be set in the blackness of space, it can involve the big bang or genesis, or anything you imagine. Prompt 19: The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648","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\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58449,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648\/revisions\/58449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}