Beth A. Fleisher<\/p>\n
Hour 5<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Prompt 5: Choose a picture and use it as the jumping off point for a poem.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sunrise on Spirit Mountain<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I open my eyes to the first glimmers of daylight,<\/p>\n
reveling in the morning stillness,<\/p>\n
that soft blue time before the world awakens.<\/p>\n
He is standing in my line of sight,<\/p>\n
maybe a half-dozen yards away,<\/p>\n
one foot resting on a log,<\/p>\n
Butterfly Flute in his hands,<\/p>\n
waiting.<\/p>\n
Peace encircles him.<\/p>\n
As I watch, keeping the silence,<\/p>\n
Grampa Sun comes up slowly over the mountain,<\/p>\n
silvery gold glinting the tops of Douglas fir trees.<\/p>\n
He puts the flute to his lips and blows his breath<\/p>\n
into the flute, which sings out a flute song so pure<\/p>\n
that all our relatives \u2014 birds, deer, squirrels, butterflies \u2014<\/p>\n
stop their morning rituals to listen.<\/p>\n
The flute song,<\/p>\n
born of this morning,<\/p>\n
born for this moment,<\/p>\n
creates perfect harmony between us and all things.<\/p>\n
Flute song calls us to walk in beauty,<\/p>\n
to love fully,<\/p>\n
to forgive freely.<\/p>\n
to help each other,<\/p>\n
to dream new dreams.<\/p>\n
As Grampa Sun is fully revealed, the flute song ends,<\/p>\n
he lowers the Butterfly Flute,<\/p>\n
and walks silently back to our sleeping bag.<\/p>\n
I open my eyes and I am home in my bed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beth A. Fleisher Hour 5 Prompt 5: Choose a picture and use it as the jumping off point for a poem. Sunrise on Spirit Mountain I open my eyes to the first glimmers of daylight, reveling in the morning stillness, that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312","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\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78486,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312\/revisions\/78486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}