{"id":54815,"date":"2019-06-23T00:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54815"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:30:05","slug":"things-unsaid-prompt-20-hour-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/things-unsaid-prompt-20-hour-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Unsaid  (prompt 20, Hour 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am camouflaged<br \/>\nbehind a mound of hair.<br \/>\nIn this small car<br \/>\nspeeding across town,<br \/>\nI battle the rapids<br \/>\nof roaring rivers and shatter<br \/>\ninto millions of diamonds<br \/>\nin their cascading falls,<br \/>\nor elbow the sheer waters<br \/>\nwith a spidery grace.<\/p>\n<p>I stalk the Appalachians<br \/>\nas we pass your lab,<br \/>\neyes fixed on the tall spire<br \/>\nemerging like a ghost<br \/>\nout of frosty air,<br \/>\nlike a lost finger<br \/>\nof some sleeping giant,<br \/>\nwaiting for a magic spell.<\/p>\n<p>Gazing fierce eyed<br \/>\npast the landscape,<br \/>\nI vault up into the sun<br \/>\nand wheel my silent wings<br \/>\nin tumbling patterns across blue spaces<br \/>\nin cloud fields, caressing<br \/>\ntheir white-bellied shapes<br \/>\nwith a moist, airy palm as I pass.<br \/>\nThey weep with joy.<\/p>\n<p>You ask what I\u2019m thinking<br \/>\n(content with your own thoughts)<br \/>\nBut you\u2019d never understand:<br \/>\nmy heart is a crystal<br \/>\nand my shining colors<br \/>\nexceed your vocabulary.<br \/>\nSo I say, Nothing special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am camouflaged behind a mound of hair. In this small car speeding across town, I battle the rapids of roaring rivers and shatter into millions of diamonds in their cascading falls, or elbow the sheer waters with a spidery grace. I stalk the Appalachians&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[261,2201],"class_list":["post-54815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-16","tag-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54815","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\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55124,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54815\/revisions\/55124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}