{"id":56045,"date":"2019-06-23T03:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56045"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:51:38","slug":"tired-but-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/tired-but-triumphant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired, but Triumphant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When sickness strikes, it dominates<br \/>\nAnd all involved it subjugates<br \/>\nTo worries, sleepless nights, and pain<br \/>\nAnd &#8220;When will they get well again?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe only topic this refrain, &#8217;til it abates.<\/p>\n<p>When sickness will not go away,<br \/>\nAnd claims its place in every day<br \/>\nThe only thing left to be done<br \/>\nIs play the hand as dealt, and run<br \/>\nNo clouds can fully block the sun when it is day.<\/p>\n<p>When sickness stays, it has to learn<br \/>\nThat other things will take their turn<br \/>\nIn centre stage, the sickness deemed<br \/>\nOld news, and coping is routine<br \/>\nOne stops regretting might-have-beens, and bridges burned.<\/p>\n<p>Form: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/florette2.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Florette (verson 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prompt: Write a companion piece to an earlier poem<\/p>\n<p>Original poem: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/kwillsen\/freedom-ltd\/\">Freedom, Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When sickness strikes, it dominates And all involved it subjugates To worries, sleepless nights, and pain And &#8220;When will they get well again?&#8221; The only topic this refrain, &#8217;til it abates. When sickness will not go away, And claims its place in every day The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3278,2949,3277],"class_list":["post-56045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-companion-piece","tag-disability","tag-hour-nineteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56248,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045\/revisions\/56248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}