{"id":55852,"date":"2019-06-23T03:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55852"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:16:06","slug":"the-moon-has-a-scent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-moon-has-a-scent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon has a Scent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon has a Scent<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark<\/p>\n<p>Night blossoming<br \/>\nMoon flower<br \/>\nPalest ivory<br \/>\nLemon ice<br \/>\nScented jasmine<br \/>\nThe smell of water<br \/>\nThe heat of the night<br \/>\nSecret oasis<br \/>\nBring me here again<br \/>\nIn your arms<br \/>\nHold me tight<br \/>\nMy heart is pounding<br \/>\nCan you feel it?<br \/>\nOr is your pulse<br \/>\nBeating in time with mine?<br \/>\nRoses sleep, there heads nodding<br \/>\nIn a late, full moon breeze<br \/>\nMingling their velvet scent<br \/>\nWith the brown of sandalwood<br \/>\nThe ivory of jasmine<br \/>\nAnd the way our hearts beat as one<br \/>\nThe water cooling our thirst<br \/>\n(but not our thirst)<br \/>\nSand baking into our bare feet<br \/>\n&#8220;I can smell the moonlight&#8221; I say,<br \/>\nAnd you laugh, because no one can, of course<br \/>\nBut in that moment everything has a scent to me<br \/>\nEven the moon flavors the air faintly<br \/>\nOf apricots and figs, vanilla sorbet<br \/>\nGirls are so silly<br \/>\nThe night is getting hotter<br \/>\nI can see my breath<br \/>\nTonight&#8217;s the night for love<br \/>\nIn the secret oasis<br \/>\nWhere everything has a scent <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon has a Scent Virginia Carraway Stark Night blossoming Moon flower Palest ivory Lemon ice Scented jasmine The smell of water The heat of the night Secret oasis Bring me here again In your arms Hold me tight My heart is pounding Can you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3019,352,2793,3260,3262,265,3263,3264,3259,960,53,3261,52],"class_list":["post-55852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-best-poems","tag-best-poems-2019","tag-full-moon-poetry","tag-jasmine-poetry","tag-roses","tag-roses-poetry","tag-sandalwood-poetry","tag-secret-oasis","tag-starklight","tag-starklight-press","tag-the-moon-has-a-scent","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56019,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions\/56019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}