{"id":64061,"date":"2020-06-27T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64061"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:33:32","slug":"eternity-now-hour-three-a-nonet-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/eternity-now-hour-three-a-nonet-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternity Now (Hour Three, A Nonet Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64438\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eternity-now-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Eternity Now<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eternity now, why would you wait,<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>when forever could start toda<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">y<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You could sing with the angels,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">drift away on a cloud<\/span>,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>grab a <em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">golden harp<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>and learn to play.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, please show<\/p>\n<p>me <em><strong>The<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Way.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">(A nonet consists of nine lines, with a syllable counts as follows: 9\/8\/7\/6\/5\/4\/3\/2\/1, so the poem appears to \u2018disappear.\u2019 This poem was inspired by selecting a random prompt, which was originally posted during Hour Three of the 2017 Poetry Marathon, asking you to select one of several provided images and use it as a starting point for your poem. I chose the image above which says &#8220;Eternity Now.&#8221;)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eternity Now &nbsp; Eternity now, why would you wait, when forever could start today? You could sing with the angels, drift away on a cloud, grab a golden harp and learn to play. Lord, please show me The Way. &nbsp; (A nonet consists of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-miscellaneous","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64061","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64763,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64061\/revisions\/64763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}