{"id":56756,"date":"2019-06-23T05:29:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56756"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:29:04","slug":"prompt-26-animkiig-thunderbird-aaand-a-holla-back-to-an-older-poem-two-prompts-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-26-animkiig-thunderbird-aaand-a-holla-back-to-an-older-poem-two-prompts-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 26: Animkiig (Thunderbird) – aaand…a holla back to an older poem…two prompts in one!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I am a keener and because I am ready to fall over,\u00a0 I have decided to pull two prompts together – I am replying to an earlier poem in this one about an animal that I have mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n

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animkiig<\/em><\/p>\n

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I have seen you wandering from here,<\/p>\n

on your shores of slate-black lakes,<\/p>\n

from this storm I call home<\/p>\n

in the heart of lightning’s transformative medicine<\/p>\n

where fire opens life<\/p>\n

for seeds shut to all but heat…<\/p>\n

like you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

be careful what you wish for.<\/p>\n

you gazed into the centre<\/p>\n

to learn teachings of butterfly.<\/p>\n

now you know what transformation feels like,<\/p>\n

my claws in the flesh of your left shoulder,<\/p>\n

as I know how it feels to<\/p>\n

touch the face of the sun to hear Creator’s voice.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

because of my flashing eyes,<\/p>\n

this world still dances with life<\/p>\n

and you still dance, too.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

what will you do with that gift?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I hear your prayers in the tobacco smoke,<\/p>\n

echoing them in whispers<\/p>\n

to Creator’s heart.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

you’re welcome.<\/p>\n

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(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I am a keener and because I am ready to fall over,\u00a0 I have decided to pull two prompts together – I am replying to an earlier poem in this one about an animal that I have mentioned earlier.   animkiig   I have…<\/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-56756","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\/56756","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=56756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56811,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56756\/revisions\/56811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}