{"id":6585,"date":"2015-06-13T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:06:52","slug":"ancient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/ancient\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient"},"content":{"rendered":"

The limbs are tired.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tired are the eyes;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

for the ears there has been<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

too much sound, too much<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

coloured noise, and tired,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

too, this endless length of day,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

this mad chase of sun, moon,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

breathless wind, arguments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

of cold and heat, dying stars<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

reborn as planets, circles<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

and ellipses, comet tails<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

foretelling doom that has<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

already come and gone,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to even more ends and then,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

again, beginnings, the youth<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

of eternity in the trees, the seas,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the stirrings of time in waves<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

of dandelion seeds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(c) Ella Wagemakers, 15.00 Dutch time (= 9 a.m. EST in the US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The limbs are tired. Tired are the eyes; for the ears there has been too much sound, too much coloured noise, and tired, too, this endless length of day, this mad chase of sun, moon, breathless wind, arguments of cold and heat, dying stars reborn…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}