{"id":62660,"date":"2020-06-27T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62660"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:42:19","slug":"paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"PARADISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PARADISE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>An untimely beauty with soft dark skin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She walks with the confidence of a queen strolling along the gold path laid before her. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wearing exquisite cloths crafted by the most conscious designers of her village. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her hair is golden with coils shining like crystals in the sun. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watching her children play and laugh at the elephants and giraffes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She bends down to place her hands in the soil to connect to the vibrations of the earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A smile graces her face as the merchants surround her with jewels, stones, and sage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The horizon blends into the green ocean as the seagulls dive elegantly below the surface.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music begins to play in the distance. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The drums and flutes harmonize as her hips begin to join the rhythm of the waves. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The breeze overtakes her the wind wraps its arms around her fragile body and carries her closer towards <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the beat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her people are waiting and watching in awe as she moves through the crowd. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smiling and rejoicing the harvest was graced with abundance. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her children grab the maracas and the celebration is magnified. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A peace settles over everyone as the flutes begin to play a soothing frequency. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is my home, this is paradise. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARADISE \u00a0An untimely beauty with soft dark skin. She walks with the confidence of a queen strolling along the gold path laid before her. Wearing exquisite cloths crafted by the most conscious designers of her village. Her hair is golden with coils shining like crystals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114],"tags":[3442,3518,3519,3520,883,391],"class_list":["post-62660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-divinecollectionofchaos","tag-higherfrequency","tag-lifelessons","tag-author","tag-poet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62660","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\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63201,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62660\/revisions\/63201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}