{"id":66381,"date":"2020-06-27T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66381"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:39:08","slug":"poem-6-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-6-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the perfect day<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning<br \/>\ni wake up early<br \/>\nit&#8217;s storming outside<br \/>\nyou still asleep<br \/>\ni watch your chest rise and fall<br \/>\nrise and fall<br \/>\ni ease my feet out from under the sheet<br \/>\nplace them on the floor<br \/>\ni stand at the window<br \/>\nwatch the lightening flash<br \/>\nacross the half-lit sky<br \/>\nhear the raindrops beat against the roof<br \/>\nsomething stirs inside me<br \/>\ni turn slowly from the window<br \/>\nwalk back to the bottom of the bed<br \/>\nyou are still lying fast asleep<br \/>\ni watch your chest rise and fall<br \/>\nrise and fall<br \/>\ni look at your muscles detailing your arms<br \/>\nadmire your strong leg that is out<br \/>\nfrom under cover<br \/>\nstare at the fullness of your bottom lip and<br \/>\nsomething inside me stirs again<br \/>\nnow i lay beside you<br \/>\nrun my hand across your chest<br \/>\nsoftly say good morning underneath my breath<br \/>\nand know exactly what this is about to be<br \/>\nthe perfect start to the perfect day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the perfect day Saturday morning i wake up early it&#8217;s storming outside you still asleep i watch your chest rise and fall rise and fall i ease my feet out from under the sheet place them on the floor i stand at the window watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66381","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66561,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66381\/revisions\/66561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}